Parallex

I was introduced to the parallax a few months ago and thought that it was just a nice little bit of css but that as good as it was, it wouldn't really be anything amazing. It was just a nice touch which makes backgrounds and other elements look more interactive.

(I think the first person to use parrallax on a website was Silverback If they wern't the first they are definitly the people who made it mainstream.)

My opion of the css parallex techique changed after I went to future of web design because one of the creators of the silverback site was telling us how people have taken that idea and now moved it on a bit and made the CSS Parallax: The Horse in Motion effect.

The idea simply combines the css parrallax techinque with a zoetrope, producing a stunning animation using only css and html and two .pngs.

I think limitations of this is that long and complex animation can't be reproduced and even some simple animations will be quite complicated to make.