tammymc opened this issue on Aug 12, 2003 ยท 173 posts
leather-guy posted Tue, 12 August 2003 at 2:49 PM
I can see the point of the change, but I feel I need to point out a couple of things. The first one, obviously, is that disabling Rt-Clk doesn't actually prevent anything, just makes image capture slightly less convenient. I know of at least 4 ways around it off-hand, and I've never even researched the subject. Also, Rt-Clk isn't just turned off on the images, it's completely disabled on gallery pages. I use Rt-Clk extensively for navigation. Especially the "Open in New Window" option. Browsing the galleries was time-consuming enough, but at least I could Rt-Clk on multiple thumbs in rapid sequence, and then view each image while the additional pages were loading. It's the only way I could reduce the time browsing the galleries or forums to a point I could justify the time. I'm on DSL, and even so, the time wasted on clicking on a thumbnail, clicking the back-button, and then clicking on the next thumbnail I found interesting wastes far more time than I can afford to spare. I hope I'm making sense with my description. My point is, if Rt-Clk were disabled ONLY ON THE ACTUAL IMAGES THEMSELVES it would accomplish the present goal of making image-capture slightly less convenient without making gallery navigation completely impractical. As it is, I can't even Rt-Clk on my shopping cart from a gallery page to open a separate window and see if I've already purchased a product used in an image I like, or open a separate window into the MP to add something to my shopping cart. To Sum up - PLEASE re-enable the Rt-Clik option to the gallery pages and thumbs and just disable it for the Images themselves (assuming most members would prefer that). note, I myself have no problem with people downloading images in my gallery either way. I've always figured that's what watermarks were for.