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Simple Quest.. Is it possible to make the awesome homepage slider/the hover things of Adidas.com using Jquery or maybe Ajax?

I'm really2 like it..

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Short answer: yes — that Adidas-style hero and hover choreography can be re-created with front‑end tech; the tricky part is the choreography and assets, not a single API. asked about jQuery/Ajax, and earlier replies from and rightly flagged old implementations and the work involved. Note: Flash has been retired and blocked by vendors (support ended Dec 31, 2020), so modern builds should target HTML5/CSS/JS instead. (adobe.com)

Practical approaches: use CSS keyframes/transitions for simple fades/slides (hardware-accelerated where possible) or the Web Animations API when you need programmatic control and better timing primitives. For complex, timeline-driven scenes use a purpose-built library such as GSAP — it makes choreography, sequencing and performance far easier than trying to stitch many independent animations together; jQuery can still handle DOM/Ajax but isn’t required for the animation engine. (developer.mozilla.org)

Useful engineering tips: design the hero as layered components (background, art, overlays) and only animate transforms/opacity rather than layout properties to avoid layout thrash. Lazy-load and trigger heavy scenes with IntersectionObserver to save CPU and battery on mobile, and consider Canvas/WebGL (three.js) for any true 3D or particle work. Prototype pieces separately, then bind them into one central timeline so effects don’t fight each other. (developer.mozilla.org)

Scope note: echoing and , individual effects are easy — combining them reliably across devices is where projects get long. As suggested, a generalized, well-documented plugin or component that abstracts timing and asset loading can be a valuable outcome if generalization is possible.

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yes

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Hello ALL..Emmmmm..:-/
Simple Quest.. Is it possible to make the awesome homepage slider/the hover things of Adidas.com using Jquery or maybe Ajax?

I'm really2 like it..

Nope,

is 99% flash based.

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Pretty sure he was asking if he could do the same thing using jQuery, not if it was jQuery. So the answer would be yes.

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Hello ALL..Emmmmm..:-/
Is it possible to make the awesome homepage slider/the hover things of Adidas.com using Jquery or maybe Ajax?

Yea i think its possible..
for instance, i m sure i can do all(well few of them :D) the effects individually and I am damn sure that i'll screw up everything when i try n combine those effects... :)
But someone more experienced could do it for sure

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If you mean , then the answer must be YES, because all the effects are already achieved with jQuery.

If you mean , then mmmm, PROBABLY but there would be a lot of work in it. It's very imaginative. Maybe the flash author devised a generalised algorithm but I expect it's a hard-coded schema; ie. for each panel, he drives all the panels to pre-determined sizes/positions. That's the way I would approach it in jQuery (or Flash) and about 3 months later I might expect to have it working.

At Western commercial rates, it's a $25,000 project, maybe one third of that in Rupees. If you could create a generalised solution in the form of a jQuery plugin, then it would earn you money.

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