Re: Deactivate browser's print function

On 2007-07-28, Cartoper <cartoper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jul 28, 10:45 am, Sherm Pendley <spamt...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

First off, I don't disagree that all these types of things are easy to
get around, IF YOU KNOW HOW. Being a professional software developer
I understand that it isn't a matter of if your code is stolen, but
when is it stolen.

On the other hand I think it is foolish not to put basic measures in
place to "keep the honest people honest". I am putting together my
photography studio web site and I want to at least let folks know that
I don't want them taking my images. In the end I will leave it to
their congest (how do you spell this work? I spend 10 minutes trying
to figure it out and I cannot, please enlighten this poor fool that
cannot smell!) as to go around my basic measures or not;)

I'm only correcting you because you explicitly asked for it (in
other words, not just to be a jerk):

congest -> conscience (?)
spend -> spent
smell -> spell (I think; can you smell?)

I wouldn't encourage trying to use client-side obfuscation to
prevent people from obtaining your images and HTML source code. The
people who want to get your images will get them one way or another,
and trying to put (highly ineffective) road blocks in their way will
only anger them, and may even cause them to increase their efforts
out of spite. It will also drive away potential visitors -- plenty
of people still browse without JavaScript, and I'm personally not
likely to turn off NoScript for any particular site unless I know
beforehand that it's going to be worthwhile.

As for this "HTML Guard" thing, it's absolutely worthless. After
disabling NoScript I was still able to right-click on and save the
image on the sample site, simply because I have the "Allow scripts
to disable or replace context menus" Firefox option disabled. And
as another author already mentioned, the Web Developer plugin is
happy to show you the JavaScript-generated HTML.

This stuff is snake oil, pure and simple. Don't break your web site
in a misguided implementation of absolutely ineffectual copy
protection.

Mark

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Mark Shroyer
http://markshroyer.com/
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