I got the impression from reading through the developer notes that it is a
javascript animation:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleApplications/Conceptual/Dashboard_ProgTopics/index.html

Choose "Widget Backs and Preferences", and scroll down to "Flipping Sides"

Perhaps I need to dig deeper into the developer tools. 



bmsterling wrote:
> 
> I see; well ultimately you can't flip anything like that in javascript,
> BUT...  You may be able to achieve it thru trickery, now, I am just
> rambling
> this off the top of my head, but what if you create four images.  Image 1
> was the front side and when something is clicked, a link or something,
> that
> content fades out, image 2 (an animated gif) replaces image 1 and when
> image
> 2's animation is complete (you will need to play with the timing between
> the
> gif and javascript) you replace image 2 with image 3.  Now to go back to
> the
> front side, you can just reverse it, but instead of image 2, put image 4
> (the reverse animation gif).  You will need to preload each image for
> smoothness.  I would love to see if you can do this, if not, let me know,
> I
> may give it a run as a plugin.  I just need to see the video again.
> 
> 

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