Dan Zen has just launched a new 3D Parallax menu with HummingBird. The addition of HummingBird took about 10 minutes of development time – mainly to position the HummingBird logo at the bottom right corner.
In doing so and testing in Safari on the Mac – it was discovered that if you go to another window the HummingBird driven holder would disappear. When you went back to the window it would seem to come back from far away. This led to a suspicion that the X and Y position of the mouse is set to some large number when the mouse is not in the window. The HummingBird class and thus the Zip have been updated to account for this.
The use of HummingBird on the menu is quite subtle. Dan Zen also used HummingBird for his holiday card at http://www.danzen.com/holiday2009/. Here the effect is greater and indeed forms the essence of the feature.
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