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Apple uses animated QuickTime elements on a few areas of its site now -- most notably on the iWork page. You can actually scrub through the animation using your scroll-wheel.

I don't know directly how this would be useful; maybe if you missed a certain frame, or if you want to admire all the Apple goodies that flash by without having to watch the movie a dozen times.
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Control QuickTime animated web elements
Authored by: Mike A on Jan 17, '06 08:39:48AM

To be honest, I found this to be more of a nuisance than anything else. Mainly this is because I'll open the page, and then use the wheel to scroll down it a bit. However, once the Quicktime bit moves to be under the cursor, it all goes wrong :(

The movie stops are starts to move frame by frame, and the page is no longer scrolling. Most importantly, it can mean that links that are supposed to appear at the end of the Quicktime clip never come up, which can be rather confusing.



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Control QuickTime animated web elements
Authored by: zane on Jan 17, '06 01:46:36PM

Yeh, bugged me too, but with a scrolling track pad in this instance. Took me a few seconds to realize why the page wasn't scrolling when I noticed the animation erratically moving back & forth thru frames!



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