This is actually a very old idea.
My band from when I was young (Aconite Thrill rah rah rah) used to have a website built in Flash (remember websites built in Flash!?), which had an animated ball that would follow the cursor around the screen. When you clicked on it, the main menu for the website would appear. Pretty smart work for the time… we’re talking 20 years ago give or take. Then iPhones came around and destroyed Flash based websites for ever. And probably for the better.
Just a little experiment to see if I can recreate some of that magic with jQuery instead. Which, I have to say, was quite promising.
Fun times.
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