CB <> wrote:
> thanks
>
> ps...the client insists
First, it's customary to include the question within the body of the
article. Some of us backward folks can't easily view very long subject
lines.
Second: disabling right-clicks doesn't work if javascript is turned
off, or if the user has ever even passed through the shadow of a clue.
Consider:
wget
http://www.yourhost.com/images/your_image.jpg
Or, for those who don't have wget (and why the hell not!?!?!?), there's
always the option to just enter the image URL into the browser location
bar, then "Save As". Or to save all of the images, "File -> Save Page
As" (or whatever the menu items are in a given browser).
Please, when clients are in need of education, give it to 'em. If you
don't, then one day the fools are going to see their hijacked images on
the web somewhere and blame you for it. Then they'll go looking for
another web deeziner, and **** a lot of people off with their
uninformed and unreasonable demands.
"I want it so that no one can download my images!"
"That's easy. Don't put them on the internet."
"Don't be glib; it's unprofessional."
"That's the only way to do the thing you ask."
"But I want them on my site. I just don't want them stolen."
"Get used to it. That's just how things really work."
"I'm going elsewhere. You're unprofessional!"
"Please do. Have a nice day."
Lather; rinse; repeat. By the time the message sinks in, your client
won't want to talk to you any more, because he's lost face. He'll end
up going elsewhere just to avoid the embarrassment. You'll be out some
future income, and some other poor dumb bastard will be forced to deal
with the still ignorant but slightly less so client.
--
Art Sackett,
Patron Saint of Drunken Fornication