right-click on pic bug

[boardsilly]

just thought that i would let someone know about this ... there's a script at this page:

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex9/noright2.htm that is supposed to be able to stop someone from right-clicking on the pic to steal it or whatever

i'm not 100% if this is a bug or just an easy way to defeat the disabled ability of right-clicking on a pic ... you guys can decide

after going to this page that has the script ... if you right-click just beside the pic on some white space (and keep the right-click button down) and drag the mouse over the pic and then release the right-click button while over the pic ... you will get the right-click context menu the same as if you were able to right-click on the pic itself

just thought that i would tell someone the good news ... now there will be a slew of right-clickers out there stealing all the pics that they were never before able to steal

[mwinter]

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex9/noright2.htm [...] is supposed to be able to stop someone from right-clicking on the pic to steal it or whatever

i'm not 100% if this is a bug or just an easy way to defeat the disabled ability of right-clicking on a pic

Context-menu blockers have never been reliable, and never will be. Anyone who believes otherwise is ignorant of the facts (fair enough for 'average' users), or deluding themselves.

The method you describe is not the only way: there are many. The simplest in Firefox is to right-click on the image and, leaving the cursor where it is, press the spacebar to dismiss the alert box. The context-menu will now appear at the location of the cursor.

Another, for any browser, is to run the following bookmarklet:

javascript:document.onmousedown=document.onmouseup=null;for(var i=0;document.images.length>i;++i)document.images[i].onmousedown=null;void(0);

Similar bookmarklets can be used for every other context-menu blocker ever written.

Mike