How is apple able to achieve the (apparent) Gaussian blur effect for the photos in the background in this demo:
A:
Looking at the source, those are prerendered. No HTML5 trickery for that part, unfortunately.
Example: http://images.apple.com/html5/showcase/gallery/images/polo9b-small.png
ceejayoz
2010-06-04 14:38:41
Aw, that's no fun. Interestingly, it looks like it swaps them by setting one of their opacities to 0 rather than setting visibility to hidden (or display to none).
ʞɔıu
2010-06-04 14:50:54