For this journal entry, I will share a resource found on Github for a simple parallax scrolling effect nearly identical to the examples shown in this week’s lecture. The difference here is that it uses Javascript and jQuery.
In our course, we have covered how to make this work using CSS. But if you are curious and want to experiment with other methods, read on.
The author of this post uses public domain images taken from NASA to create a slow-reveal effect as you scroll down the page. Look familiar?
The downside here would be that adding a bunch of classes to style a page this way is that you are potentially using a lot of non-semantic HTML. But to each their own.
With that said, I can’t help but think back to the article by Rachel Andrew that we read earlier in the course, and I can see how it might be another case of making things more complicated than they need to be.
Let me know if you found this interesting or plan to try it out.
