Re: Disabling "View Source"

Hopefully the writer realized the folly - the text is there on the page,
ready for viewing, copying, and pasting (so the text is no more protected
than without the encoding) - the only thing that was protected was the HTML,
and there didn't seem to me to be anything there that was not easily
duplicated.  The images could be easily "stolen" just by using the direct
path to the images (easily determined using View Source), so to a determined
"thief," this was no deterrent at all.  Since keeping the encoded text up to
date (and certainly editing it once encoded) must have been tedious at best,
lets hope in the interests of conservation of time, you can do away with
that particular method.

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Steve Mount, Software Engineer            steve(at)saltyrain.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Linda Mercer/Wishstar" <catnip(at)ais.net>
To: "Nancy J. Foster" <nancyf(at)quillandmouse.com>;
<hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 9:41 PM
Subject: Re: Disabling "View Source"


Well, NOW I know it doesn't work in Netscape! Hadn't checked that! Goodbye
compiler since it doesn't protect the copyrighted material in all formats
and is a pain in the neck to use when updating pages!

I'd used the compiler and no right click at the request of one of the
writers for the newsletter who was concerned about copyright infringement.
I can't tell you what a pain in the neck that's been!

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