If you will go to
www.dynamicdrive.com you will find a snow script at
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex3/snow.htm that uses small
images of snowflakes and works for many browsers. Also there is
another script at dynamic drive that gives either a snow or rain
effect without images for IE only.. The first version probably could
be easily modified to use the "*" in large font size for snow flakes
rather than an image to better meet your stated preferences. I saw
something of this sort of modification last year, but I do not recall
where.
