Quote Originally Posted by jAQUAN View Post
The thing is, at the time, based on what even the experts knew about the web, it was cool. We learned quickly chalked it up to experience but it felt right at the time.
I like that bigspaceship created a site dedicated to the preloader. http://www.prettyloaded.com/
Some of those preloaders are still mother effing awesome.

I just think that for those of us old farts who been playing with flash and such since it's explosion back in 2002 needed to take a look at why things are the way they are now. Yea, at the time it was cool, but now its your dad's music, if you know what I mean.

Gawd I hated disco.

Perhaps if we cross our fingers, start publishing some awesome hardware accelerated stuff, make full use of the power of AS3 and stage3D, the pheonix will rise once agian.

Or.... It could go down the same black hole that java applets fell into, time will tell.

Here's to one more day in the sun.