- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:15:24 -0800
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: paul@activemath.org, Web APIs WG <public-webapi@w3.org>
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > I thought about this some more. I think the select event, implmented by > IE, Mozilla and Safari already would let content authors completely > prevent copying text out of the page by preventing selection. But I > don't know of any examples of it being used this way. > > So (a) the cat is out of the bag and (b) in practice content authors > don't seem that keen on entirely preventing users from copying text. Yeah, i thought about this too. You could probably also call .blur() every time a node got focus. And we even have a CSS property in mozilla that is supposed to give control over selection. However it currently is buggy enough that it actually doesn't prevent copying. But I think that it's only a matter of time until these things are abused. At the same time i do realize that this stuff could be useful. I've long wanted to add some capability to mozilla/firefox so that a site can be flagged as "I don't trust this site not to hack my computer, but I do trust it not to annoy me" which would allow stuff like chrome-less windows, pop-ups, resize windows, change statusbar and stuff like that. Such a site would of course get access to clipboard things too. However if and when such capabilities are added to mozilla or any other browser is very much unsure. / Jonas
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