Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gentlemen, Regardless which version of IE you are using ALL internet pages, photos and other bits & bytes are saved in a temporary folder (usually %windir%\Temporary Internet Files\Cache1 ...cache2 ...cache3 etc). Regardless what you write in your java script, all your photos will end up there. It is a simple matter to copy files from there to any directory you want. Have microsoft made this easier? I think not. John B - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay Burleson" <jayburleson@earthlink.net> To: "Leica Users Group" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 1:44 AM Subject: [Leica] Internet Explorer 6 > I don't know how many of you are using Internet Explorer, but since it is > very prevalent out in the world, I thought I'd better pass this along. > I just updated one of my machines to IE 6, and I found a disturbing item. > By default, when you place your mouse cursor over a photo, a toolbar pops up > in the upper left corner. It has 4 icons that do the following: > The image toolbar makes it easy for you to save, print, or send in e-mail > images that you find on the Web. The image toolbar appears when you point to > an image on a Web page. > Click the disk icon to save the image. Images are saved to your My Pictures > folder unless you specify a different location. > Click the printer icon to print the image. > Click the envelope icon to send the image in e-mail using your default > e-mail program. > Click the folder icon to open your My Pictures folder. > > On my website, I used a JavaScript to disable the right click "save picture > as" function. > The new toolbar ignores that. > I am not happy that Microsoft feels that anyone can save any image to his or > her hard drive regardless of copyright etc. > You can disable the toolbar on your machine, only to the extent that it > won't show up unless you turn it back on. So far I have not found a way to > stop it from functioning remotely, but I've just started looking. > If anyone has any more info, please post it so all can take precautions with > our posted images. > > Jay Burleson > "Second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning!" J. M. Barrie > UPDATED 5-30-01: http://www.jayburleson.com/ > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html