[thelist] Hiding images (no right click?)

Peter-Paul Koch gassinaumasis at hotmail.com
Wed Oct 17 10:47:04 CDT 2001


>Hows about this one, a 10 pixel overrun at the bottom of the image, if the 
>image is shown in a popup, have the popup 10 pixels too small with no 
>scrollbars, when the user right clicks and saves as, he gets an image with 
>words similar to "stolen from www.whereever.com", or if it is on a page not 
>in a popup, relatively position a 10 pixel high layer of the background 
>color under the image at -10px, this will hide the warning but when saves 
>it appears. Not that sure about netcrap navigator being able to use the 
>layer solution though, + its more striking than a watermark.

I found this idea interesting enough to try and it works, see

http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/tests/imagetest.html

for the result. Doesn't work in Version 4 and Opera. Of course, even if it 
works the thief can still change the image, but it does help a bit.

ppk



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