How about animated gif (or MNG if you wanna go one better) support for the "loading" texture? We could use a spiffy, animated "MATRIX" texture with whizzzing green numbers! Or a Star Trek "transporter" sparkle! I can imagine SO many cool effects we could use. And the change would probably take you guys just minutes to code.
Anything but static, fugly grey. Please, please, please!
And while I'm making a Christmas list, how about applying this support for animated textures (without scripting) to all textures?
