how do you disable "view source" button?

[apsadmin]

Hi all,

Cruising the web I ran across a site that had the view source option disabled in my IE browser. Neat trick I thought, so how do I implement it? I'm using dreamweaver and IE.

[HardCoded]

Please see this thread.
http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=12575
The consensus there is that it's an irritating and ineffective thing to do.

[matauri]

Its a waste of time trick. Go to View on your menu & you can view source there. Go to Save & save the site & view the source there. Dont go wasting your time or bandwidth with silly features like that.

Ditto to HardCoded, that is one of the threads that have covered this.... there has been pages & pages of other threads discussing this topic.

[apsadmin]

no - no - no,

All those links address graphic thieves, how to protect your graphics, etc... thats not what I want to know. I want to know how to disable the "view > source" button in IE. Go here for an example:
http://www.new-frontier.info/od_minimal.gif
You will notice that the "source" button is disabled. Neat, eh? When you get there give it a minute...then the expanded view button comes onto the screen, click it and you see a normal page. In either state, the "source" button on the browser toolbar is disabled, but the other right click buttons still work. Howdodeydodat? Time to let the hounds on the scent..haaaaaarrrrrruuuuuuuu.

O.K, you genuises, give.

[HardCoded]

Since when could you view source on a gif?

[apsadmin]

your right hardcoded,

When I went back to check it out it was non functional. Since the site "looks" like its jammed with links to other data, I thought they worked like a real page, but when i click on them, they go nowhere. Damn. I do want to know how to disable "view > source" in the toolbar without disabling right click for everything else, but i can see this site is not the example I thought it was. But, does anyone know how to do this with a real website, not just a .gif, without losing the right click features?

[matauri]

Ditto again HardCoded... view source on an image?

I went into the rest of that site & could view the source of every page I went to.

[matauri]

#1... why would you want to?
#2... as soon as I saved the page I could have the source code anyway
#3... if I viewed it in a browser with developer tools I can view it too

Why waste the time & resources?

[apsadmin]

Its not for me, its for a friend of mine. He is in a biz, where his competiton is a small circle, everyone knows everyone, and everyone is constantly ripping every one else off. This is not a "learned" community (tailors, you know...clothes) who are not that computer savvy, and even though its easy to get around for you guys, it might give him some relief from his "basic point and click" competition.
Even very "basic" tricks should confound most of them.

[matauri]

What is he trying to protect though?

Even if we gave you a script to do what you ask, someone can still copy the text by just copying & pasting. The images can still be downloaded & saved. Even the most basic user can do that.

If one of their competitors wanted to snaffle anything on the site, they would only have to select all, copy & paste it into Word, and there is your layout too.

Best advice to give friend is.... once it's on the web it's there for the taking, and even the most basic of user can do it.