[BNM] Creating a Flickr spaceball.gif effect

[Jay Caines-Gooby]

On Feb 1, 2008 9:56 AM, Alastair James <al.james at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, you could also:
>
> make a div with the main image as a css background. Use CSS to set its
> size to be the same as the image.
>
> put an image inside the div (same size) with the transparent gif.
>
> Then the main image is not clickable as a background image. You would
> have to open up the source to get the URL.
>
> If you wanted to make it even harder, you could encrypt the URL and
> pass it to client javascript code which decrypts it and sets the div's
> background on load. The hacker would have to then pull out your
> decrypt function to get the URL then...

Or just use Firebug and inspect.


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