CSS Meets SNES
It’s geek childhood flashback time! Why? The “coming soon” site for an upcoming web-based application, Silverback, uses CSS to create a fun parallax scrolling effect. Just visit the site and then mess around with the size of your browser window and watch what happens to the jungle vines across the top of the page. It’s fun!
For the non-nerds in the audience (hah! as if!), paralax scrolling is an effect that used to be popular in many well-beloved Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis games, where different layers of background graphics scrolled by on your screen at different speeds, to simulate depth perception.
We don’t usually see this kind of thing in web pages, but it is, for me, at least, a throwback to videogames of my youth, so it’s fun to see the old mixed with the new.