Originally posted by Dr Unne
Have you balanced the benefits of a one-second flashy animation which people won't even notice the third time they've seen it, with the sheer annoyance and hassle of users downloading some bizarre script or *shudder* Flash animation just to display a graphic which likely takes away from easily using your site, not to mention the amount of programming time and effort you need to spend to even get such things to work? Maybe it's just me, but anything beyond plain old HTML and CSS (and maybe TINY bits of inobtrusive Javascript at the very most) annoys me to the point of prolonged twitching.