It's not a Feature!

[lirion]

Javascript can go fist itself.

Right after anyone who uses this particular little tool does, preferably with something akin to a pitchfork.

Why would you install an application that prevents you from right clicking on links in a webpage? Instead I get an ugly little pop up with of all things a Copyright message.

so what you are saying you stupid moron is that you want to put links in your apge - some of which give context to what youa re talking about, and some for general interest - but you are going to prevent people from easily opening them in a new window, so they ahve to leave your page to follow said link.

What would possess you to be so idiotic as to implement this? One assumes it has a legitamate use, one equally assumes this is not it's intended purpose. So how about keeping your twitchy fingers away from things you don't understand huh?

How exactly is this a feature????

It does not make your page easier to read. In fact it distracts me from said reading because I ahve to elave said page to gain the context youa re referring to? This does not best please me!

Stupid!

Comments

[sly-girl.livejournal.com]

"It's not a fea-cher!"

[fraerie.livejournal.com]

You do realise that at this point you are blaming the tool (javascript) ant not the t00l (coder) for the problem...

[lirion.livejournal.com]

I fail to see that point of said tool :)

But you are correct, my original comments were more heavily directed at the user but by the time I deleted my frustrated expletives ther ewasn't much left :)

[lirion.livejournal.com]

I ahve now edited post a bit. Was too irritated when i first wrote it :)

[nutzboy.livejournal.com]

If the popup comes up on mousedown, then hold your right mouse button down and press the spacebar to get rid of the popup, then release again to get the menu.

Or; in IE do shift+left click to open in a new window and Firefox defaults to middle-click to open in a new tab.

I dont know why people still do this. People used to do it when bandwidth was expensive and fairly novice site-creators would disable right-click so people couldn't get the source links to files (Or do 'view source'). Pointless these days, though.

[lirion.livejournal.com]

Ta for tip but doesn't come up until i release mouse.

it's bloody annoying.

But I'd forgotten about middle button, because I am silly :)

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

Sometimes done to discourage image-theft, but still fairly easy to circumvent for anybody who really wants to do it.

[lirion.livejournal.com]

I do assume there is a real use for the tool, but blocking links strikes me as someone didn't know how to use it properlike :)

[aeduna.livejournal.com]

I generally disable javascript except for image swapping anyway.

[lirion.livejournal.com]

I need it for neopets.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Mozilla lets you disable certain javascript commands that would do things like:
- moving or resizing existing windows
- raising or lowering windows
- hiding the status bar
- changing the status bar text
- changing images
- disabling or replacing context menus

I only allow javascript to change images (good for buttons that change on mouseover) and change status bar text (not sure if I ought to disable this because I've found some sites where some moron decides to fuck around with messages on the status bar and annoy the hell out of me... trouble is, virtual worlds need it to be able to display certain info, so I've allowed it... for now).

Go to the Edit menu -> Preferences. Then choose Advanced -> Scripts & Plugins.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

I should add that people who jealously guard the images on their site, thinking that disabling context menus makes them safe need to get out more. They are incredibly annoying and remind me of Daffy Duck. Remember this one where is shrunk to tiny size and when Bugs finds a pearl in an oyster Daffy races in yelling "It's mine! Mine! All mine!"?