A bunch of examples of what I want to do:
I want to make a video free site that has thumbs of the videos and download links. When you click on the thumb, a player pops up (not in a new window, but on the same page) and streams a FLV (Flash video) version of the movie/clip. When the clip has finished, they can click on an X or anywhere on the page and it would close the window... If the user has no JS or it's been disabled, clicking the thumb would be the same as in regular video galleries - the file download will start.
Image gallery - you click on a thumb, a transparent gray sheet covers the whole page and a loading image shows in the middle. A few secs later the full sized image pops in front of the user. He clicks on the X in the top right corner or anywhere on the page and the image closes, so he/she can see the gallery and click on another thumb. If JS is disabled or there's no JVM, the full sized image is loaded as in any other regular gallery.
Those're simple, up to date visual improvements, that currently are not available to me or anybody else wanting to use them. In both cases the users will see loading, smooth graphics, no page reload, when watching movies they'll be able to see the loading progress, etc.
Tell me how is this not good for you or your surfers? But please don't give me the boring "rules are rules, so GFY" reply...
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