Hello everyone,
Do anyone have any idea how disable right click when public viewer is viewing a website?
OR
A way public viewer can’t copy the text from a website
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A way public viewer can’t copy the text from a website
You can’t stop someone from being able to get at the text in a web
page. That’s how HTML works; it downloads to the browser in order to
be shown.
You can try to disable right-clicking, but this only works when that
particular browser page is the front-most window. Anyway, whatever
you do you can’t prevent someone from looking at the source of the
web page or doing a number of other things to get their own copy of
the page content if they want it.
Give up now. If it is so important that people absolutely must be
prevented from copying it, don’t publish it in the first place.
Seriously - give up now.
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You can keep people from copying content…but at the cost of not being sear engine friendly. What I am refering to is using Flash instead of html text.
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using Flash instead of html text.
But they can always take screengrabs. Basically, if someone wants to
enough they will. Does it matter?
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But they can always take screengrabs. Basically, if someone wants to
enough they will. Does it matter?
Indubitably, but it won’t be text.
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Unless you print and scan with OCR.
Colin
On 17 Dec 2008, at 00:49, chuckamuck wrote:
But they can always take screengrabs. Basically, if someone wants to
enough they will. Does it matter?Indubitably, but it won’t be text.
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Sometime around 17/12/08 (at 09:35 +0000) Colin Alcock said:
Unless you print and scan with OCR.
Exactly Colin. Or just type what you see. Or just use the bitmap
image directly; it looks the same. Or crack open the SWF with a text
editor and search for the text strings; that might work too.
There are all sorts of if-but-however things that can be said on
either side of this issue. However, the bottom line is that if it is
published it is published. Consider why it is so important to
‘protect’ the content versus why it is important not to make the
regular visitor’s life more difficult. Or make things harder for
search engines and those with visual accessibility assistance
requirements.
Taz, you still there? I’ve been rather down on the idea of trying to
block text copying but I do understand the feeling. What’s the reason
behind your original question?
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…or hide under a rock and forget all about the web and all it’s problems. 
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thatkeith, I understand what you meant by looking the content of web source.
I also understand the viewer can also ‘print screen’ the webpage and type out the text manually.
However not very viewer would know about web page source or would go to the extend of typing out manually.
Why I need to disable right-click is just a precaution, not a full proof for grabbing the text.
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Ok, Why not try using a transparent graphic, layered on top of the text or pictures you don’t want them to casually grab?
On 18 Dec 2008, at 06:53, taz wrote:
Why I need to disable right-click is just a precaution, not a full proof for grabbing the text.
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Are you saying that using transparent graphic, viewer are not able to casually grab the text or pictures
AND
also search engine friendly?
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Sometime around 18/12/08 (at 01:53 -0500) taz said:
Why I need to disable right-click is just a precaution, not a full
proof for grabbing the text.
I’m growing more and more curious. Precaution against what, exactly?
Or to be more precise I mean why worry about this, and what is the
underlying need for precaution?
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Well yes. Putting a transparent layer of the top of html text or pictures makes it harder to casually grab the text from a browser. But anyone even slightly determined could easily get the text . e.g print the page, save as PDF, select the text. Or just view the code.
For images have you looked at the image guardian action?
But as Keith said, if its that important, should it be on a public web site viewable to all? Why not password the page for selective users?
On 18 Dec 2008, at 10:47, taz wrote:
Are you saying that using transparent graphic, viewer are not able to casually grab the text or pictures
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Disable right click: Dynamic Drive DHTML Scripts- No right mouse click script III (no alert)
Disable text select: Dynamic Drive DHTML Scripts- Disable Select Text script
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On 16 Dec 2008, at 18:52, taz wrote:
Do anyone have any idea how disable right click when public viewer
is viewing a website?OR
A way public viewer can’t copy the text from a website
Hi Taz,
You’ve had the answers that matter on this question, but I’d like to
put in my own bit if I may.
The philosophical answer to your question is more interesting than the
actual one. That’s because the actual one is simple: it’s impossible,
and that’s that. The End.
But the philosophical answer is more interesting, because it
encompasses what the Web is all about, which is ease, friendliness,
sharing, elegance in useability and many more I can’t think of, I’m
sure. The Web (with corporate/business exceptions) is about just
getting it done, about getting the most information to the most people
in the nicest way, as efficiently as possible. It’s about NOT having a
site where you have to email the owner (or even go to another page) to
find out the price of an item, but rather having the price, the
dimensions, the colour and the weight in grammes right there in the
description, and sometimes even more information that you didn’t think
necessary, just because it’s possible, and easy, and it might help the
viewer. It’s about making it easy for the viewer to drag a picture
from your site off onto their Desktop because they might want to refer
to it later, or show it to a friend who also might be interested. Or
making it easy for them to copy any or all of the text on your site,
for the same reasons. When you obstruct people on the Web, they tend
to ignore you. What you put on the Web needs to be thought about in
advance; if you have things on your site that you don’t want people to
copy or share, then you probably missed a step early on in the design
process; the answer is not to put anything on your site that you don’t
mind being shared or copied or, as some people have it, ‘stolen’. If
that leaves you with not much in the way of content, then perhaps a
rethink of the whole ‘Web ethic’ is in order. It’s a fun, pleasant and
easy-to-use place where anything that makes life difficult is frowned
upon, and in this context, ‘frowned upon’ usually means ‘never visited
again’.
You can make it more difficult for people to copy from your site.
Trouble is, if you manage somehow to make it ten times more difficult,
it’ll still only take them five seconds, so it’s hardly worth your
effort. You can make all your text into images, but I can type almost
as fast as I can read it, so no problem there.
It’s about openness, friendliness and fearlessness. A friend of mine
on the GoLive list many moons ago had the best email signature I’ve
ever seen; it was: ‘Give people more than they expect, and do it
cheerfully’. I’ve tried to do that, and have wanted to have that for
my signature, even though I can’t, ever since.
My advice, although feel free to ignore it, would be: put whatever you
want to put on the web, don’t let the fact that someone may ‘steal’
it worry you, and live with it. It gets easier when you do.
best wishes,
Paul Bradforth
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On 18 Dec 2008, 1:52 pm, Egill Sigurdur wrote:
Disable right click: Dynamic Drive DHTML Scripts- No right mouse click script III (no alert)
Disable text select: Dynamic Drive DHTML Scripts- Disable Select Text script
On both of these examples, Command-A, Command-C switch apps, Command-V and everything on the page is in the new app.
The thing about disabling right click or mouse select is that it stops only the noobiest of noobs.
-Jim
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I think you want this code…
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