Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And how many users know how to copy items from their cache to their personal folders? Very very few indeed. Most don't even know that they have cache or what it is so I think Jay has a point. However as someone else already pointed out that if you set the resolution to 72 dpi they are useless for printing purposes. Regards Bas - ----- Original Message ----- From: "John B" <e.brackenbury@chello.nl> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 6:58 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Internet Explorer 6 > 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 > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html