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.
Moofius on August 9th, 2006 at 5:41 am
I can’t get it to work. (Opera 9, win)
Martin MC Brown on August 9th, 2006 at 5:44 am
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 :)
David Appleyard on August 9th, 2006 at 5:50 am
Cool indeed! And yes, a QuickTime thing :)
Jaakko on August 9th, 2006 at 5:55 am
You don’t need a scroll for that, just click on the movie and press left and right arrow keys respectively.
weisheng on August 9th, 2006 at 7:34 am
Yep, this can be done in all Quicktime movies.
Piko on August 9th, 2006 at 9:38 am
Normal!! All quicktime movies respond to the scroll wheel in this way…
LAME!!! :P
Piko
Chris Coleman on August 10th, 2006 at 2:17 pm
What should be happening. When I try to scroll with the wheel on Firefox at work, it well, scrolls the page.
Marc on August 11th, 2006 at 10:15 am
Chris: You can watch any Quicktime movie backwards and forwards.
baz on August 17th, 2006 at 8:12 am
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)
Namebrand on August 25th, 2006 at 11:11 am
Or just hit the space bar to play the whole (short) movie.
Sherlock on October 17th, 2007 at 12:22 am
I tried it in Safari 3.0.3beta, it doesn’t work.
It scrolls the page too.