Saving YouTube gif transparent logo (?!?)

Hello everyone, I'm trying to save the YouTube logo from www.youtube.com and I'm getting a pixel-vfl73.gif 1X1 pixels. Browsers: IE8, Opera.

How can this be possible (or how they done that)?

How save this gif image?

Tried many methods, never seen anything like this before

Thanks and sorry for posting such a question, but I'm really curious.

 

Look at the bottom of this page. You will probably have to resize it.

 

Thanks tgell, but I've already found even this:

acceptable ways to depict the YouTube logo

but the question remains: how they done that and how to get that exact file used on the top left of YouTube page?

 

I looked at the image info in firefox and it listed it as:

1px × 1px (scaled to 110px × 40px)

Not sure how they do that.

 

@davidlynch

@tgell

1px × 1px (scaled to 110px × 40px)

Right click and save to your comp

 

The "actual" image - http://s.ytimg.com/yt/img/master-vfl172243.png

Get creative - http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/

 

hi cloneranger, when I try to save I always get a 1x1 pixel image, which obviously can't be scaled to 110x40. I couldn't test on Firefox, when you try to save you get the full image?

I've tried even to save the whole page as single archive (mht), complete html, etc, in *no* way I could get it; even on browser cache the file has 1x1 pixel

 

thanks - you mean that you had access to it by using this web developer extension?

 

No, no ... I meant Web Developer's a great utility for exposing some of what's going on with a web page, the rest controlled server-side on their end. Long story short, how they're calling the image from "master-vfl172243.png" to display as it does is @ this point, beyond what my hobbyist background is able to explain. There's more to a YouTube page than meets the eye.

Though I suspect there's been dramatic change since this "YouTube architecture" article surfaced, I think it'll provide an interesting overview to their earlier mechanics.

 

thank you, GlobalForce

 

Sure David, was an adventure. Been wanting to get around to some of this stuff myself, you know, and get out of the page coding illiterate pool. If I decide to post asking about the mechanics I'll be sure and leave reference, OK. I'd kinda like to have someone give me a quick rundown ....

Regardless - that Web Developer toolbar's a real handy item, one well worth check'in out!