Counter-example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAZdJ_FIyRM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAZdJ_FIyRM Maybe it was more practical than pretty, and there are

Counter-example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAZdJ_FIyRM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAZdJ_FIyRM Maybe it was more practical than pretty, and there are probably good reasons it got changed since then. Still, I was so impressed (once the images were done loading, it was very smooth for me, nothing like in the video), and that's even with the cheesy photographs of grinning tourists. I ended up making my own little js thingy to change CSS based on scroll and mouse position, but I haven't found a really good use for it. Except maybe having a big fixed header at the top which shrinks a bit when you scroll down, that effect I like. Other than that, anything I can come up with seems dumb on further inspection.