So you'd rather the user sits there wondering if this huge, highly complex application (like any Office or Adobe app) that takes 10-15 seconds to load, even longer on a slow laptop, is actually starting up, or should I click it again, or is my computer dead, or "what the heck is going on here"...?
Splash screens serve a purpose other than advertising. No program I know of actually delays the load to show the splash screen. Rather, they are a prettier way of saying "loading...". I have an application that connects to a SQL server. The app itself isn't a slow loader, but the connection to the SQL server (often on another computer or on hard drives that may be asleep) can take 5, 10, or more seconds to establish. The splash screen shows that progress and let's the user know what things are being done. Far better than a spinning beach ball. > From: Gregory Weston <gwes...@mac.com> > > I would also argue that in general splash screens are an anachronism. > They're a holdover from slow hard drives attached to slow CPUs and the > idea that an app taking several seconds to finish preparing itself for > user interaction was normal. Today there are relatively few apps for > which that's the case. Splash screens are no longer the norm and it's > fairly gratuitous to force a user to wait for a while as you > essentially advertise a product they already own to them. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
