Re: Prevent IE users from copying or seeing copy toolbar?
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:32:35 -0500, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.rem ovethis@comcast .net> wrote:
[color=blue]
> Barbara de Zoete wrote:[color=green]
>> On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:51:35 -0500, Harlan Messinger
>> <hmessinger.rem ovethis@comcast .net> wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> me wrote:
>>>
>>>> As a visitor to my site you will be expected to abide by my rules.[/color]
>>[color=darkred]
>>> As someone who presumably *wants* people to visit his site, your attitude
>>> seems counterproducti ve. If every time friends of yours visited your home,
>>> you confronted them at the door with "As long as you are in my house you
>>> will abide by my rules, and if you don't want to, then you can leave," and
>>> then told them they had to take off their shoes and wash their hands, how
>>> many of them do you think would stick around?[/color]
>>
>> I automatically adapt to house rules of people I visit, if I can make them
>> out.[/color]
>
> So do I. It doesn't follow from that, that I would continue to be friends with
> someone who feels that it's appropriate to treat *his* friends as I described
> above.
>[/color]
Well s/he has te be a very very good friend for me to be able to cope with an
attitude like that :-) But even if not made explicite, are house rules not very
strict sometimes? If only I take a couple of friends with kids in mind, and see
how it changed house rules. As a visitor you are expected to abide, even if you
didn't take part in the evolution of the new set of rules, but just drop in
every odd few months or so.
Other rules are very implicite but never the less very strict too: you can look
all you want, but never take with you (books, CD's, pictures, paintings,
silverware, the master bedroom furniture for all I care :-) There are places you
don't go without your hosts, like the bedrooms, the kitchen (initially; if a
closer relationship evolves you can start going there on your own).
Just saying that a lot of rules are very very strict and you do abide by them
and never mock them, or only on a rare occation. You probably have lots of them
too, applicable to your home (which just happens to be your castle). And
wouldn't the joke be on you if someone came by and walked off with a book of
yours or with your blue jeans and underpants. :-)
There is this general understanding that you don't take what is not yours to
have. I recon this counts for pictures on the internet. It annoys me too that
some code monkey at Microsoft thought of this toolbar, that makes it very easy
to copy any picture on my site. It is almost an invitation to copy. I don't
think copying should or even can be prevented, but a blunt invitation goes too
far IMO.
So I too hid that darn toolbar using the peace of code that is fully understood
by IE. Appearently Microsoft doesn't really mind me doing that.
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> There is the occasional person who has one or two special requirements. Such a
> person says, apologetically, "I hope you don't mind, but my carpetting gets
> soiled easily and is really hard to clean. Would you mind taking off your
> shoes before coming inside?"[/color]
Wow, you have polite friends :-)
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> Which is very different from the attitude expressed by "me".[/color]
Well, that bit I agree with fully. Attitude of this 'me' person is not very
friendly.
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On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:32:35 -0500, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.rem ovethis@comcast .net> wrote:
[color=blue]
> Barbara de Zoete wrote:[color=green]
>> On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:51:35 -0500, Harlan Messinger
>> <hmessinger.rem ovethis@comcast .net> wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> me wrote:
>>>
>>>> As a visitor to my site you will be expected to abide by my rules.[/color]
>>[color=darkred]
>>> As someone who presumably *wants* people to visit his site, your attitude
>>> seems counterproducti ve. If every time friends of yours visited your home,
>>> you confronted them at the door with "As long as you are in my house you
>>> will abide by my rules, and if you don't want to, then you can leave," and
>>> then told them they had to take off their shoes and wash their hands, how
>>> many of them do you think would stick around?[/color]
>>
>> I automatically adapt to house rules of people I visit, if I can make them
>> out.[/color]
>
> So do I. It doesn't follow from that, that I would continue to be friends with
> someone who feels that it's appropriate to treat *his* friends as I described
> above.
>[/color]
Well s/he has te be a very very good friend for me to be able to cope with an
attitude like that :-) But even if not made explicite, are house rules not very
strict sometimes? If only I take a couple of friends with kids in mind, and see
how it changed house rules. As a visitor you are expected to abide, even if you
didn't take part in the evolution of the new set of rules, but just drop in
every odd few months or so.
Other rules are very implicite but never the less very strict too: you can look
all you want, but never take with you (books, CD's, pictures, paintings,
silverware, the master bedroom furniture for all I care :-) There are places you
don't go without your hosts, like the bedrooms, the kitchen (initially; if a
closer relationship evolves you can start going there on your own).
Just saying that a lot of rules are very very strict and you do abide by them
and never mock them, or only on a rare occation. You probably have lots of them
too, applicable to your home (which just happens to be your castle). And
wouldn't the joke be on you if someone came by and walked off with a book of
yours or with your blue jeans and underpants. :-)
There is this general understanding that you don't take what is not yours to
have. I recon this counts for pictures on the internet. It annoys me too that
some code monkey at Microsoft thought of this toolbar, that makes it very easy
to copy any picture on my site. It is almost an invitation to copy. I don't
think copying should or even can be prevented, but a blunt invitation goes too
far IMO.
So I too hid that darn toolbar using the peace of code that is fully understood
by IE. Appearently Microsoft doesn't really mind me doing that.
<hides/>
[color=blue]
> There is the occasional person who has one or two special requirements. Such a
> person says, apologetically, "I hope you don't mind, but my carpetting gets
> soiled easily and is really hard to clean. Would you mind taking off your
> shoes before coming inside?"[/color]
Wow, you have polite friends :-)
[color=blue]
> Which is very different from the attitude expressed by "me".[/color]
Well, that bit I agree with fully. Attitude of this 'me' person is not very
friendly.
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