Efficient HTML Div with hole in it

Question

Let me explain a bit more, I am trying to have a large area (full screen) with a fixed size hole in it. The hole will follow the mouse around the screen. Think of having a

Answer 1

You may want to use the canvas tag, which can work on IE using excanvas, http://excanvas.sourceforge.net/, and you would then put the text inside the canvas tag. It can react to events as it is an html element, basically.