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I've always loved the animating navigation icon... gave you a sense of exploring unknown territory.
by jbverschoor 3y ago
I've always loved the animating navigation icon... gave you a sense of exploring unknown territory.
- giantrobot 3y agoIt gave me something to do while loading a page over slow-ass dialup. The worst were pages had the same color for the text and background and relied on a slow loading background image to provide the contrast to read anything.
- netsharc 3y agoAs someone else mentioned, there was a discussion about the Netscape meteor icon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36982856 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36982856 I modified my Vivaldi install to add the animated N (downloaded from http://www.netscape-communications.com/netscapes-throbber-and-logos/ http://www.netscape-communications.com/netscapes-throbber-an... ), as I described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36993118 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36993118 . After writing that comment I modified it further so that the persona icon isn't circular, but square, by modifying the Vivaldi UI through CSS: https://gabevilela.vivaldi.net/2020/12/26/guide-customizing-vivaldis-ui-with-css-mods/ https://gabevilela.vivaldi.net/2020/12/26/guide-customizing-...