Page transitions

OK, so most people should be familiar with the IE-only page transitions. They've been around since... a while. I suppose they're under-used on a grand scale because very few people want star-wars style transitions between their pages and it'll always look like My First Movie Edit to a certain extent. Just as a reminder, you simply put

<meta equiv="Page-Enter" content="revealTrans(Duration=3.0,Transition=23)">

in the head of your page. This one gives you a random wipe-style transition each time you enter a page. "Page-Enter" can be swapped for "Page-Exit" the duration can be changed and if you change the number after Transition, you can select one of 22 different transitions on it's own - the codes for which I've copied below:

Box in      0
Box out     1
Circle in   2
Circle out  3
Wipe up     4
Wipe down   5
Wipe right  6
Wipe left   7
Vertical blinds      8
Horizontal blinds    9
Checkerboard across  10
Checkerboard down    11
Random dissolve      12
Split vertical in    13
Split vertical out   14
Split horizontal in  15
Split horizontal out 16
Strips left down     17
Strips left up       18
Strips right down    19
Strips right up      20
Random bars horizontal 21
Random bars vertical   22
Random  23

The other taransition that IE provides is content=BlendTrans(Duration=3.0) which faes the content in over the previous page, which is actually quite nice and classy :)

Although surely we like making sites that work elsewhere other than IE?

Well, I've been pondering a PNG solution to this - using a pixel that fades up from black, say and overlays your whole site until it's cycle is over, and then it disappears, allowing you to get at the content - this could probably be pulled off with a slice of Javascript, but I think that requires some thought about it on my part since I'm no JS guru, or even an apprentice monk.

Anyway, have a think yourself, and if you have anything good, or find anything on your travels in the web land - drop me a line.