Cool active image on Leopard homepage
Written on August 08, 2006 by Martin MC Brown and 12 people have commented
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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#1 Moofius says:I can’t get it to work. (Opera 9, win)
#2 Martin MC Brown says: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
#3 David Appleyard says:Cool indeed! And yes, a QuickTime thing
#4 Jaakko says:You don’t need a scroll for that, just click on the movie and press left and right arrow keys respectively.
#5 weisheng says:Yep, this can be done in all Quicktime movies.
#6 Piko says:Normal!! All quicktime movies respond to the scroll wheel in this way…
LAME!!!
Piko
#7 Chris Coleman says:What should be happening. When I try to scroll with the wheel on Firefox at work, it well, scrolls the page.
#8 Marc says:Chris: You can watch any Quicktime movie backwards and forwards.
#9 baz says: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)
#10 Namebrand says:Or just hit the space bar to play the whole (short) movie.
#11 Sherlock says:I tried it in Safari 3.0.3beta, it doesn’t work.
It scrolls the page too.
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