RFC: Loading animation for applets

[Omair Majid]

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 11:42 -0400, Omair Majid wrote:
>> The attached patch adds an applet loading animation for IcedTeaPlugin to 
>> icedtea6.
>>
>> The patch adds binary files (images). A mercurial bundle is available 
>> from http://icedtea.classpath.org/~omajid/applet-loading-animation.hg. 
>> (Use hg unbundle to apply it.)
>>
>> The main change is adding an animator class to NetxPanel. This 
>> PluginAppetLoadingAnimator shows the animation in the panel until the 
>> applet has initialized.
>> [...]
>>      * plugin/icedtea/sun/applet/resources/icedtea-background-*.jpeg:
>>      Frames for the loading animation.
> 
> Very cute, but 60 frames, 55K each, adding 3MB...
> Could that be reduced a bit please.
> 

You should have seen the original version: 12MB :) I will try and cut 
down the size. What would be an acceptable upper limit? 1Mb? 500k? 100k?

Cheers,
Omair