I have found some code that will prevent visitors to our website from right
clicking on our images to save them to there disk. But in windows xp this
code is useless because when you rollover an image, a little icon wil appear
making it possible to save, print out or even email it. Is there a way to
prevent this?
There is a meta tag you can insert in the head of the page that will prevent
the 'icon' as you call it (I see four icons) in IE6 on windows xp and other
windows versions too. But it will not stop me from copying your images.
This code you found is useless. Disabling my right-click-menu will not
prevent me from dragging your image onto my desktop or straight into my
image editing program with my left mousebutton. It will only annoy (and
highly so) me and others who use the right-click-menu for other purposes
too. I can print-screen with and without javascript, or browse my cache to
retrieve any and all files separately. I can even take my camera and
photograph my computer monitor.
There is no solution against the copying of images. Certainly not a
javascript solution. Think of all your users who do not have javascript
enabled in the first place.
If you don't want something copied, don't put it on the internet.
Ivo