![]() Example 1: Lorenzo Bocchi taking rather nice subtle approach to the cursor trail. That can be used in a rather tasteful manor that is more of a cursor trail. The difference between a “custom cursor” and a “cursor trail” is that the trail is often a DOM element chasing down the cursor position as it updates. Out of the box the web allows you do customise your cursor using simple CSS.Ĭursor: url(images/my-cursor.png), auto this property will substitute your normal cursor with a image replacement.įrom past experience I generally steer away from this to give the user a familiar experience along with ensuring their clicking accuracy isn’t change by a slightly off pixel image replacement. While you can have custom cursors that can be set up similar to Both these sites applied the cursor trail to enhance the feel of their respective sites instead of just having a custom cursor for custom cursor sake in the 90’s. Recently the used of a cursor trail has appeared on at-least two “award winning” sites. This technique was abused in all sorts of glorious ways back in with the 90’s web and early 2000’s web. They have a rather nostalgic place in my heart as they were often paired with things such as “guests book” at the prime of the 90’s web. ![]() Cursor tails go back a long way in the history of the web.
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