[thelist] Seriously cool advertising technique

Matt Warden mwarden at gmail.com
Fri Mar 4 13:41:34 CST 2005


Chris,

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:19:53 -0500, Chris Johnston <fuzzylizard at gmail.com> wrote:
> What browser are you using? 

Firefox 1.0.1 on Linux.

> Do you have javascript turned
> off?

Nope, if I did, gmail wouldn't be letting me send this :)

> Up in the top right corner there is a small animation, when you mouse
> over the animation it triggers a page curl affect showing what is
> presumeably behind the page that you are looking at. What is actually
> revealed is an ad in the form of a webpage. The cool thing about the
> affect is the level of detail that is included. Not only do you get
> the page underneath, but you also get its reflection in the page curl
> portion. Overall, it is exceptionally well done and very unintrusive.

Interesting. But I definitely don't see any of that.

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Matt Warden
Miami University
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