[ale] restricting web input

[James Sumners]

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> On Tue May 5 2009, James Sumners wrote:
>> I just pressed ctrl+a and then ctrl+c.
> that also got all the crap on the left hand side of the page, but you are
> right, ctrl-a,ctrl-C DOES copy it, but you can't just swipe & highlite info..
> why is THAT??

You just asked for copy and paste. You didn't put any rules on it :)

The problem is that in the head of the document they have this lovely
bit of script:

if (typeof document.onselectstart!="undefined")
document.onselectstart=new Function ("return false")
else{
document.onmousedown=disableselect
document.onmouseup=reEnable
}

When are developers going to learn that breaking the user's software
is _bad_? You might look at the YesScript[1] addon. It sounds like it
will do exactly what you want.

[1] -- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4922


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