[BNM] Creating a Flickr spaceball.gif effect

[Alastair James]

Is it not just a img tag with a transparent gif file and the image you
want to display as the background image url?

You could still 'view background image' in Firefox though...

Al

On 01/02/2008, delarge <delargerock at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey yo BNM
>
> I am about to finish a site for someone which uses the Flickr API - they
> have asked me if I can protect the images using the spaceball.gif effect. I
> haven't done this before.
>
> Does anyone know how this is done on Flickr? Positioning a layer over the
> photo? Repeating a 2x2 gif somehow over the top?
> Any advice would be grrrrreat!
>
> Big thanks!
>
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