This is a simple page that uses jQuery to follow you mouse around and move the center of the background image under your mouse. Useless I know, but ridiculously fun. Plus, I'm sure my code could be better.
I really liked this technique and I wouldn't call it totally useless :) It can be put to an awesome use to create a Harry potter themed website in which we could toggle this technique in a particular section to achieve the flashlight spell a.k.a 'Lumos'.
It could also be used for some kind of a game if one could innovate in the right direction ;)
http://home.comcast.net/~vonholdt/test/flashlight.htm
As Chris said, and I agree, I enjoy proof of concepts.
http://affluentpracticemarketing.com/ti ... lashlight/
@Soap: It's ridiculously fun and simultaneously useless isn't it?
http://davidwalsh.name/mootools-flashlight
It could also be used for some kind of a game if one could innovate in the right direction ;)
Nevertheless, Thanks for sharing it with us :)
<body>
All the Content
<div style="background: url(transparent-hole-as-the-flashlight.png); z-index:9999;"></div>
</body>
Or maybe that's too heavy for the browser, since you have to use a pretty big flashlight picture as the bg... (like 1900*1200)...