Re: Splash Pages [was Front Pages]

At 10:03 a.m. 08/28/98 +0000, Mic Miller wrote:
>Have been following this thread and I _think_ no one has touched on this
>use of "splash pages":  they can be used to notify the reader that the
>Web page has moved and then automatically take the reader to the new
>location.

Why not just simply redirect them without loading a picture?  Why
load an extra 35K image just to redirect someone?  (In fact, with
most any webserver these days, you can redirect people _transparently_,
so you shouldn't need to worry about a meta-redirect at all!)

>Another possible use is to show status ("Loading now") which
>I'm using on a CD-ROM version of a Web site.  FWIW.

Funny, my browser does just fine at displaying "loading now".  That's
what the rotating e and/or N are for, and the little status bar at
the bottom.  With a splash page, I have to wait for something reading
"loading now" to load, and then wait for the _real_ content to load.

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