[BNM] Creating a Flickr spaceball.gif effect

[delarge]

Hmmm yeah - I suppose that would do it - I thought it might be some real web
magic from Flickr, perhaps I am wrong :)

On Feb 1, 2008 9:43 AM, Alastair James <al.james at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.gifeffect. 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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