It's probably triggered via Javascript. But I'll bet that the animation uses Quartz.
-----Original Message----- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of rolfsf Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 4:37 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: Apple dashboard-style animation in jquery? I got the impression from reading through the developer notes that it is a javascript animation: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleApplications/Conceptual/Dashbo ard_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. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Apple-dashboard-style-animation-in-jquery--tf4355930s1 5494.html#a12416724 Sent from the JQuery mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
