- From: João Eiras <joaoe@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 14:21:46 +0200
- To: public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:03:25 +0200, Paul Libbrecht <paul@hoplahup.net> wrote: > > While the discussion about preventing abuse in clipboards is happening, > allow me to suggest something I recently found: > > In the page below is a fairly simple script that succeeds in preventing > the user to select with the mouse, hence copy, in Firefox 6, Safari 5.1, > and a few others. > > http://www.diakadi.com/guadeloupe/feroce_d_avocat.htm > > The workarounds include: use Camino, print-preview and select there, use > select all. > > Can something be done to prevent this prohibition? > Do we want that? > > paul Hi. The page abuses legitimate features to control selection, which have legitimate use cases. If users don't like it they can just use another website, or disable javascript.
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