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H · January 16th, 2006, 2:14 PM

I should recommend an urge against disabling right-clicking on a webpage. Simple reasons include:

Can be gotten around in at least 3-5 different ways, including "View -> Source" in the browser menu, viewing the browser cache, disabling JavaScript, disabling right-click detection of JavaScript and just saving the HTML file.
Doesn't help the web community. Part of the greatness of HTML and appearance is that it's all accessible. While many people want to avoid their stuff being stolen or ripped, a lot of people merely want to see how you did something. Disabling it may prevent or limit someone from learning from your code.
It's annoying. While I hardly ever right-click on a site, there's a number of reasons that I might, most of which has nothing to do with saving images or viewing the source-code. In Opera, I can do a large number of things with the right-click context menu.

Don't get me started on why page builders are evil...

January 16th, 2006, 2:14 PM	#7 (permalink)
H after g, before i Resident. Joined in Jul 2004 Lives in N,BC,CA 8,059 posts Gave thanks: 48 Thanked 129 times	I should recommend an urge against disabling right-clicking on a webpage. Simple reasons include: Can be gotten around in at least 3-5 different ways, including "View -> Source" in the browser menu, viewing the browser cache, disabling JavaScript, disabling right-click detection of JavaScript and just saving the HTML file. Doesn't help the web community. Part of the greatness of HTML and appearance is that it's all accessible. While many people want to avoid their stuff being stolen or ripped, a lot of people merely want to see how you did something. Disabling it may prevent or limit someone from learning from your code. It's annoying. While I hardly ever right-click on a site, there's a number of reasons that I might, most of which has nothing to do with saving images or viewing the source-code. In Opera, I can do a large number of things with the right-click context menu. Don't get me started on why page builders are evil...