My Opera
Animated speed dial backgrounds
Saturday, January 15, 2011 9:26:19 PM
A few weeks back I got this great animation from our movie master Christopher, the man behind many of our video clips. At first I was not sure what to do with it - I wanted to see it behind the speed dial, but our skinning engine does not support movie clips. However, it does support Animated PNGs. Previously I've been using a Firefox addon to make small PNGs, but it is very inefficient when dealing with many frames. I found something called PNG Assembler, which would do all the images in a batch. I scaled them down, changed them to greyscale and reduced the number of frames as much as I could, and the result is a nicely looping animation.
DISCLAIMERS
A word of caution though - the skin files are ~17MB.
While displaying this animation the CPU usage is a bit high.
Skin based on the latest snapshot from the Desktop Team Blog.
Do not redistribute without permission.
Mac version:
mac_skin_animated_sd.zip
Windows version:
standard_skin_animated_sd.zip
DISCLAIMERS
A word of caution though - the skin files are ~17MB.
While displaying this animation the CPU usage is a bit high.
Skin based on the latest snapshot from the Desktop Team Blog.
Do not redistribute without permission.
Mac version:
mac_skin_animated_sd.zip
Windows version:
standard_skin_animated_sd.zip
experttease # Saturday, January 15, 2011 10:22:46 PM
Henrik HelmersHelmers # Saturday, January 15, 2011 10:42:18 PM
Originally posted by experttease:
Ooops! Uploaded correctly now. Not sure how to configure the server on my.opera to serve it as a skin. If I have time I'll try to figure it out on Monday.
Danieledarklink88 # Sunday, January 16, 2011 1:01:21 AM
Another great example of what Opera can do that other browsers can't!
Charles SchlossChas4 # Sunday, January 16, 2011 3:40:27 AM
experttease # Sunday, January 16, 2011 8:10:27 PM
There's a small bug though, when it loses focus, the animation stops once you've come back. They work if you reload them.
I don't dare use this skin with 25 speed dials. Luckily I only use 9. I've flirted with 12 before but it's just too many to be useful - they become too hard to find, you may as well type the nickname into the address bar.
Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks # Wednesday, January 19, 2011 10:33:27 PM
NicoHellbillyDeluxe # Thursday, January 27, 2011 10:40:33 AM
If you have some free time, can you update the skin to the latest 11.01 changes (which are looking nice btw.)?