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echo: nthelp
to: Frank Haber
from: John Beckett
date: 2007-01-06 16:46:22
subject: Re: Web page - prevent select/copy

From: John Beckett 

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news::
> Did you try left-dragging backwards and up from the end of the paragraph?
IE7
> here had no trouble selecting and cutting.  I find trouble like this is
> usually video-driver related, and if you really need the text you can grab it
> with another browser, by changing screen rez, or by changing browser text
size
> and/or font.

I'm using IE6. Yet, I did try every kind of click and drag. It did look
like a bug somewhere. It doesn't bother me - I was really wondering if
there is some clever trick that some sites use to "protect" their
content by interfering with common browsers.

John

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