Shawn Morton may have beat me to the punch – both in writing about it – and a quick iframe demo of the Skittles idea.
The general point (in terms of Web Development) is that this is an insanely simple thing to accomplish – 15 minutes and Shawn had a working iframe demo.
I wanted to grab some of the effects and colors of the original, just to see if I could do it and “make it fancy” – I mean, there’s still a half-dozen effects that can be applied to it – fades, transitions, all those whizz-bang-pow stuff people love, but I had to pull myself back a test was important.
Skittles.com Initial Test
I decided to focus on Firefox 3 so I could use rounded corners in CSS (there’s a JS library for everyone else, sans Webkit, but hell, remember, this is a test. No one’s paying, so I’m not worried about IE.
It took me a couple hours, but here’s skittles.com, reproduced without flash.
I’m too tired to write more, so – here ya go.
