Apple Website Design Feature Help

[Cepe Indicum]

Hi,

A completely newbie question, sorry. I've had a quick search, but it's tricky to find an answer when you're not sure what to look for... so thought I'd ask the experts...

Could someone tell me how a feature on the new Apple website works? I see it about the Internet quite a bit now actually.

Go here: http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/ and click on one of the "Watch the demo" buttons... how does the following "pop up" video work? Is it Flash?

Thanks in advance, and sorry it's such a basic question (not asked particularly well).

 

[janey]

Looks like some javascript that uses prototype.js and script.aculo.us.

http://www.prototypejs.org/
http://script.aculo.us/

 

[Cepe Indicum]

That's great! Thanks for the quick reply, janey!

 

[janey]

That's great! Thanks for the quick reply, janey!

I'm not even entirely sure! At first glance, that's what it seems to be. It isn't flash at all. And I know Apple's used those for all the fancy stuff on their page...hence I believe that's what they're using.

 

[speakerwizard]

i also found this interesting/usefull, im not a proper web designer by a long shot but i want to learn in this direction and not in the slow to load and proprietry flash route, any tips on where to learn are welcome (other than the extremley useful site link you provided Janey

 

[janey]

... tips on where to learn are welcome (other than the extremley useful site link you provided Janey

What kinda stuff? I'd probably start off with w3schools and alistapart, otherwise there are two AWESOME threads on this already - https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/66336/ and https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/171456/