Nice, yes ... but only if your audience only comes to you with
JavaScript-enabled browsers that actually have JS turned on.  If not, they
see ... a big blank screen.

The disabling of the right click on that page is also interesting, and,
IMHO, bad user interface design.  I can email you copies of the text and
images without a problem.  Assuming that a user who wants to use right-click
on a page (there are lots of useful things on my MSIE right-click menu that
I use all the time, like Back, Forward, Open Link in New Window, and, yes,
View Source), then you've pissed off your visitor - a visitor then unlikely
to return.

Code-hiding and right-click disabling are visitor-unfriendly.  I actively
discourage them when I teach my programming for the net classes.

That having been said, you gave us an example of the output of the
obfuscating compiler, but not where it could be found ...

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Linda Mercer/Wishstar" <catnip(at)ais.net>
To: "Buddy Harris" <bharris(at)stny.rr.com>; <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 11:02 AM
Subject: Re: Disabling "View Source"


I haven't found anything that disables "view source" but there's a nice
little compiler I picked up on the web that compiles the source into
scrambled letters and code that is readable by the browsers but not readily
readable otherwise. For an example, look at:

http://www.felinerescue.net/CPN/archive6.htm

Linda

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