[BNM] Creating a Flickr spaceball.gif effect

[delarge]

Yeah - in fact there are hundreds of ways round it - but yes, this is to
deter your everyday surfer - I mean the person I'm doing this for has no
idea how to bypass it - so as far as she is concerned, if she can't do it -
that's good enough.

Thanks for the tips.


On Feb 1, 2008 10:08 AM, Alastair James <al.james at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok, fundamentally, if someone really wants the image, they can get it
> (hell you can take a screen grab and cut it out). If you have firebug,
> theres not much you can do to defend the image. The flickr method does
> not defend against DOM inpectors / firebug.
>
> But the goal is to protect against the casual user right?
>
> Al
>
> On 01/02/2008, Jay Caines-Gooby <jay at gooby.org> wrote:
> > 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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