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Re: Need to write-protect parts of a document...or image
Subject:Re: Need to write-protect parts of a document...or image From:Eric Ray <ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com> To:"Secara, Maggie" <secaram -at- mainsaver -dot- com> Date:Tue, 11 Apr 2000 13:00:36 -0600
"Secara, Maggie" wrote:
> resource. I do have another life, you know. Anyway, try a right click on
> any of the pictures and you get a message that says that function is
> disabled. Aparently, that's all right-click functions, not just copying.
> Of course, the owner has been a bit too clever in this case. Each of the
> pictures is a thumbnail you can click on to open larger in another window.
> And that one isn't protected. :)
It's fairly illustrative of the problems that a simple View->Source tells
you both how the right-clicking was disabled AND what the actual file
names are, should you care to open them directly.
John, I hate to tell you this, but I think you're just plain out of luck.
If it's on the Web, it can be taken. Sometimes it takes a little more
resourcefulness than other times, but it can be taken.
