Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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