Posts tagged “images”

My default browser (Vivaldi, by the way) is configured to search my bookmarks when I type into the address bar. Today I mis-typed youtube.com and it suggested a blog post from 2008 about image optimization originally published on the now defunct YUI Blog. Curious to see just how much of the advice would still apply today, I loaded the bookmark⁠⁠⁠⁠…

Although there is no bulletproof way to stop people downloading images on your website I still get this request every now and again. If you really want to protect your images don’t upload them at all but if you must you can “protect” them by including a watermark in the center or uploading a low resolution copy. A popular, if somewhat notorious, method is to disable right-clicks on the website but I do not encourage this because it confounds what the user expects of the browser. It also does not prevent people from digging the image out from their browser cache.

But while I was in the shower this morning I had a silly, if naughty, idea to “protect” an image with nothing but HTML and CSS. Here’s the codepen:

A friendly reminder to please resize your images before including them on your website. Needlessly large images will slow down your website irking visitors and upsetting your Google web search ranking.

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