Collin, I coldn't get the Firebug plugin to do anything useful for me. I've often used "View Source" to get images from websites that don't allow right clicking, but in this case the URL of the image comes up "forbidden", so eBay is one step ahead of the game. Yes, I can use IE Tab in Firefox and right click, but that may well be a loophole that eBay will soon plug. However, if I just click the Enlarge button and use Alt-PrintScreen, I can paste the image directly into any graphics program and crop the frame if I want before saving it.
John Betmanis Woodstock, ON Canada
At 10:18 AM 27/08/2009 -0400, Collin Olan wrote:
>Mark,
>Your print method does indeed work to print (or save as a PDF) but I believe
>people didn't want to go through converting it from one format to another.
>
>I think the issue is not being able to save the images directly to disk via
>either a drag and drop or right clicking to get a dialog to download the
>image. Ebay is placing another HTML element over the top of the image which
>may be small attempt to stop people from doing just that (this is also how
>Flickr kind of protects their images). While it may work with IE, it's
>actually a bug in IE that you are able to do so as the intention of Ebay is
>to mask the image.
>
>The only way to get the actual image (without using IE) is to view the HTML
>source code and get the URL to the image itself. Well, Ebay's HTML is not
>exactly easy to look at even if one is used to looking at such things but
>there is a tool (I used to be a front end web developer, for which this tool
>was indispensable) that makes the process quite easy. It's a plugin for
>Firefox called Firebug[1,2]. With this installed you can right click on the
>image and choose "Inspect Element" from the context menu and it will show
>you the HTML for that specific page element. The URL is right there for copy
>pasting.
>
>[1] http://getfirebug.com/
>[2] I am in no way affiliated with Firebug
>
>
>I hope that helps, and if nothing else it's kind of a fun plugin for those
>who get excited by such things.
>
>Collin Olan
>Brooklyn, NY