Cool active image on Leopard homepage
If you visit the Leopard page and have a scroll mouse, try using the scroll wheel while hovering over the Leopard image at the top of the main page.
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I can’t get it to work. (Opera 9, win)
OK, it seems that this is just a simple effect of them using a QuickTime movie to give a ‘swish’ on that element you load the page. To be honest, I had never noticed that effect on movies embedded in web pages before.
The scroll-mouse interaction is part of the Quicktime/Movie playback. So far it has worked for me in Safari and OmniWeb.
It is, though, still cool :)
Cool indeed! And yes, a QuickTime thing :)
You don’t need a scroll for that, just click on the movie and press left and right arrow keys respectively.
Yep, this can be done in all Quicktime movies.
Normal!! All quicktime movies respond to the scroll wheel in this way…
LAME!!! :P
Piko
What should be happening. When I try to scroll with the wheel on Firefox at work, it well, scrolls the page.
Chris: You can watch any Quicktime movie backwards and forwards.
I actually find this to be highly annoying – when i try to scroll to the bottom of the page and inadvertantly end up screwing with a quicktime movie instead, i get mighty peeved very quickly. Its certainly not the intuitive experience i expect from an apple creation (the webpage , not quicktime per-se)
Or just hit the space bar to play the whole (short) movie.