Anyone ever been able to build a website with a moving video as a background?

Trying to build a website where the background of the site is a video and then there would be an actual开发者_JAVA技巧 html page laid on top of it.

Indeed, I wouldn't advice you either to do it...

Still, purely technically it's possible by layering the flash/content divs at position:absolute (with different z-index). The SWF itself also needs to have the wmode param set to transparent.

Ambient Project Design Week 2008

http://designweek.ie/2008/index.html

Uses the div container to hold the flash video and an inner div to mask it by matching the width and height as well some other CSS goodness. Closest you will get without making it look like a disaster.

Use your dev tools (Firefox/Chrome) to take a look under their hood.

I have not tried the site in IE though.

Consider presenting the user with an option to remove the Vid underlay?

It would be extremely easy to ruin people's faces when they go to the site once the vid underlay is implemented - but I've seen some amazing designs with vid underlays - esp. with flv cuepoints which are hopped between when interacting with various parts of the overlay content.

Don't be scared of the new requirement, be critical of the end result!

Oh, and I wonder what the scoop is with HTML5, for browsers capable of displaying open video formats natively, and whether that can then be done in full-screen mode, with other HTML5 elements over the top...

I wouldn't say it won't be user friendly and would create dizziness. It all depends to the graphics and video combination used. Very mellow changes might create an interesting effect.

I would put the transparent swf in a div and animate the div with jQuery.