jParallax is pretty sweet

[dmnEPC]

Found some time to do a little browsing when WF was down the last few days and came across this cool little site with jParallax and thought it was pretty cool. So hopefully you can put it to some use.

jParallax turns a selected element into a 'window', or viewport, and all its children into absolutely positioned layers that can be seen through the viewport. These layers move in response to the mouse, and, depending on their dimensions (and options for layer initialisation), they move by different amounts, in a parallaxy kind of way.

the library is here:
jquery.jparallax.js [11k] 0.9.9 BETA

And a couple of cool demos:
Demo Stalk Buttons

Demo 2

Demo Targets

 

[heroiceric]

Check out GitHub's 404 page. I don't think they use jParallax, but still some kind of js parallax effect. https://github.com/jparrrrrrralaxx

 

[-God-]

Ooooh, I like this. Now I have to find some tasteless, flash-style stuff to cheese up for no reason.

 

[dmnEPC]

Check out GitHub's 404 page. I don't think they use jParallax, but still some kind of js parallax effect. https://github.com/jparrrrrrralaxx

Thats exactly what it is. Thats a pretty cool use.

Ooooh, I like this. Now I have to find some tasteless, flash-style stuff to cheese up for no reason.

If you check out Paul Irish's (he's a Chrome Developer)blog hes got something kinda similar in the body thats really cool kind of like a doodle board.