Apple started a trend with FrontRow by introducing the suave effect called wet floor. Everyone and their dog are using on their website now, but so what? It
is cool.
Siuyee Presents a free plugin for WordPress that allows you to use the wet floor effect on images. The only downside to this neat plugin is that it can't be used in the rich editing mode, only in plain editor mode. Of course the easier way to avoid this is to just use a bit of simple code to "wet-floor" any image. The plugin even offers customized height and opacity. This example code is all you need:
<img class="reflect rheight80 ropacity40" src="abc.jpg" /> I know from experience that this code works in both posts and in theme template files, so you can easily "wet-floor" your banner or footer image as well as little Susie's picture in your post. I know there are a ton of similar scripts out there, but I found this one particularly useful and easy. Who knew eye-candy was so simple?
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7-14-2006 @ 10:13AM
tastingmenu said...
Small technical correction, Microsoft started using this technique before Apple did in shipping versions of MSN explorer as well as public demos of early versions of Vista that it showed publicly. And I'm sure others used this effect before MSFT as well. (Disclosure, I work at msft.)
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7-14-2006 @ 5:31PM
Ryan Carter said...
While that may be true, Apple started all the hype and began the trend of everyone using it.
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