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to: Rich Gauszka
from: mike
date: 2007-01-05 21:00:46
subject: Re: Web page - prevent select/copy

From: mike 


Opera 9.10
If you try to diagnosis this problem, you may see a window that says that
Windows Network Diagnostics "Cannot communicate with Primary DNS
Server"


On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 20:48:04 -0500, "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote:

>was about to select that paragraph both in FF 2.0.0.1 and
>IE6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519
>
>FF
>If you try to diagnosis this problem, you may see a window that says that
>Windows Network Diagnostics "Cannot communicate with Primary DNS
Server"
>
>IE6
>If you try to diagnosis this problem, you may see a window that says that
>Windows Network Diagnostics "Cannot communicate with Primary DNS
Server"
>
>
>
>"John Beckett"  wrote in message
>news:bfstp2touflr5oig3denapqqpll6md9ain{at}4ax.com...
>> While following links from Slashdot re the Vista network issue I just
>> posted about, I found a page where it was hard to select text in order to
>> copy a wanted sentence.
>>
>> BTW the following link is quite interesting for those using Vista -
>> apparently there is a diagnostics tool that allows you to disable window
>> scaling without the command prompt netsh stuff.
>>
>> It's also interesting that the way to run the tool is to click a
"res://"
>> link in the web page!
>>
>> http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/1744/vista_tcp_cannot_communicate_primary_dns
_server
>>
>> Para 3 of the article starts "If you try to diagnosis this
problem...".
>>
>> What is that prevents me from selecting text in para 3, prior to a copy?
>> Is it simply a bug in my IE6, or has the web site done some tricky
>> formatting to exploit an issue in IE6 that prevents it from doing a copy?
>>
>> My IE6 browser has scripting off. This site is in my Internet zone. I've
>> noticed this on a few sites. It's not a problem - I know I can View Source
>> to get the text. I'm just curious.
>>
>> I see that Firefox does not have the issue in the two IE6 browsers I've
>> tried.
>>
>> John
>>
>

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