What do you think of the reflections trend?
by Megan, Mon, 2006-09-18 13:49
Yes, I love them! Reflections are great
20% (2 votes)
Sometimes they're good, somtimes not so much
40% (4 votes)
Eeeewwww, reflections are lame
20% (2 votes)
I'm not really sure
20% (2 votes)
Total votes: 10
JoseffB posted this at 23:22 — 24th October 2006.
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Relfections are the result of over zealous marketing guys saying "can't we do this?"... and then the developers who complete the work and know they will have to replace the reflections with something else later.
Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.
JeevesBond posted this at 07:42 — 21st October 2006.
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QFT?!!! That's a new one on me I'm afraid. What does it mean?
It is a trend as most have said, it won't last that long because everyone is overusing them so much in their designs. People will get bored of the things before long.
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Abhishek Reddy posted this at 08:01 — 21st October 2006.
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Quoted For Truth. It means "I agree".
timjpriebe posted this at 15:42 — 22nd September 2006.
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I have to agree with locatepeople. Some like it, others don't. It's the trend right now, but I'm sure it will fall the way of animated GIF eventually.
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locatepeople posted this at 19:23 — 19th September 2006.
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I think this is venturing into a sort of fashion thing. web-fashion? "reflactions are sooo 2006" "shadows were sooo 90s"
PopeCuervoLime posted this at 04:12 — 21st October 2006.
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QFT
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Megan posted this at 17:46 — 19th September 2006.
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I think they're pretty lame actually. I mean, why is a 2D image reflecting on a 2D page? And why is the page so shiny in the first place? The only ones I really think are okay are the ones on the .... wait, nope, don't like any of them.
Here is a sign that the reflection trend has reached the total lameness point (skip the flash intro to get to the main interface. You could watch it if you want to see a funny example of really lame Web 2.0 marketing bullshit)
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Arch posted this at 17:06 — 19th September 2006.
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I think they look great and I hope that it doesn't get overused.
andy206uk posted this at 11:40 — 19th September 2006.
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I was thinking about this the other day. They're ok if used well (like apple does) but can look tacky if used wrong.
PS.. here's a javascript I found that does all the leg work for you... (link: Reflection.js
Andy
Busy posted this at 23:08 — 18th September 2006.
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They were big back some 7-9 years ago, the java applets were everywhere, then they went to animated gifs (think I still have a couple). but they were the wavy reflections. Today the have just taken off the wavey effect.
I like the first comment on that page (if you can get down there, very slow loading page)
*hate sites that jam the text hard against the margin*
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