Pacific Rim style Menu + scrolling background?

[sadicus]

Greetings!
..I finally got around to watching Pacific Rim and thought it was a good "comic book" style movie.

Looking for some ideas on how to do something like this in XDP9.
http://www.pacificrimmovie.com/

I like the hidden menu, instead of a constant navbar, and the scrolling background.

[gwpriester]

Interestingly, the long scrolling screen is a series of single screen sized photos. And the fact that right clicking did not bring up the usual Flash options, I assume it much have been done with HTML5 and CS3.

[sadicus]

Good observation. ...I also thought it was cool to MM scroll the BG.

[richinri]

They also made ample use of jquery and perhaps some other javascript libraries as well. Very well done and a good example of where we are going with web development.

[Acorn]

I found it incredible that it took over 10 seconds to load 10 large images at 4MB size on a fast broadband (35Mb/s); there didn't seem to be any preloading.
In Chrome, the wheel scrolling is good but the bottom dashes do not allow repositioning.
I also found that if you select the Menu, you lose the wheel scroll and can only recover it by selecting Menu > Home.

The graphics are impressive but the implementation seems tawdry.

If you want a good site, seek the Holy Grail (Monty Python's that is). The original Spamalot one for theatre bookings was a graphic novel on an interactive page!

Acorn