I can live with Google's fade-in (introduced last year?). As far as I can tell, it only loads after the page itself has loaded, so it doesn't affect usability--it's an onMouse event not an onLoad event (I could be wrong about usability as I haven't tested it on dialup. I would think Yahoo is completely unusable with dialup, for example). But since the fade in is mostly just text, the load time shouldn't be a problem. At worst, my guess is the fade effect looks wonky in dialup. Performance-wise, it should be fine.
The background images today...I don't like. They should be opt-in only or just relegated to iGoogle or something. (The fact that they've chosen some of the world's worst pop art to adorn this feature by default makes me laugh in a very obnoxious manner.) It's amazing to me that they've learned nothing from the no-opt-in misfire during the Gmail Buzz launch. My understanding is that tomorrow it will go back to the default white and then you can opt-in with your own image. Not sure why they didn't start it that way.
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