Further reason to hate IE and to use Firefox.

[John Corliss]

Is it just me, or does anybody else notice that often you can't select
and copy text from a website in IE, but can go to that same website in
Firefox and then be allowed to do so?

Not only that, but often one can't save a web page (for instance, a
"printable view" of a Yahoo email in your account) when viewing it
through IE. I always can do this easily in Firefox though.

Egad... I really do dislike Internet Explorer. Just wish that ActiveX
other such proprietary shinanigans would die a well deserved death.

--
Regards from John Corliss
My current killfile: aafuss, Chrissy Cruiser, Slowhand Hussein, BEN
RITCHEY and others.
No adware, cdware, commercial software, crippleware, demoware, nagware,
PROmotionware, shareware, spyware, time-limited software, trialware,
viruses or warez please.

 

[Vrodok the Troll]

Is it just me, or does anybody else notice that often you can't select
and copy text from a website in IE, but can go to that same website in
Firefox and then be allowed to do so?

Not only that, but often one can't save a web page (for instance, a
"printable view" of a Yahoo email in your account) when viewing it
through IE. I always can do this easily in Firefox though.

Egad... I really do dislike Internet Explorer. Just wish that ActiveX
other such proprietary shinanigans would die a well deserved death.

What with the improvements in v1.5 rc3 (Firefox), I just may go back (to F-F),
from Opera. *Very* little in rc3 to complain about

 

[R_Green]

How can one "hate" a pice of software? Geez... I don't even "hate" Linux.

 

[David]

Is it just me, or does anybody else notice that often you can't select
and copy text from a website in IE, but can go to that same website in
Firefox and then be allowed to do so?

Not only that, but often one can't save a web page (for instance, a
"printable view" of a Yahoo email in your account) when viewing it
through IE. I always can do this easily in Firefox though.

Egad... I really do dislike Internet Explorer. Just wish that ActiveX
other such proprietary shinanigans would die a well deserved death.

I hadn't noticed since I do not use IE. Just more evidence that M$ is
never in the forefront of innovation in spite of their boasts.
--
David
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[R_Green]

never in the forefront of innovation in spite of their boasts.
--

Really?

 

[David]

Really?

Can you name one piece of useful innovation that M$ actually developed
in-house?
--
David
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[Azzman]

Can you name one piece of useful innovation that M$ actually developed
in-house?

Your OS ?

 

[Jeff]

Can you name one piece of useful innovation that M$ actually developed
in-house?
--

Windows.

 

[Al]

Windows.

Absolutely NOT Windoze ... they simply stole it from Apple

 

[me]

Windows.

Which part -- the OS or the GUI?

J

 

[Dan]

Is it just me, or does anybody else notice that often you can't
select and copy text from a website in IE,

I have never had a problem. In the instances where you can't, you
might be selecting a graphic with text in it.

 

[BarmyOne]

Absolutely NOT Windoze ... they simply stole it from Apple

Ironic really, when you consider that Apple stole it from Xerox

 

[R_Green]

Can you name one piece of useful innovation that M$ actually developed
in-house?

Sure. If *you* say so.

 

[Morten Skarstad]

Can you name one piece of useful innovation that M$ actually developed
in-house?

Single player card games?

 

[jacaranda]

Is it just me, or does anybody else notice that often you can't select
and copy text from a website in IE, but can go to that same website in
Firefox and then be allowed to do so?

Even with Firefox, sometimes you have to disable javascript to enable right
click. But it's really easy if you use the Preferences Toolbar extension.
It allows you to enable/disable javascript with a click.

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=BBQ=AB?=]

Even with Firefox, sometimes you have to disable javascript to
enable right click. But it's really easy if you use the
Preferences Toolbar extension. It allows you to enable/disable
javascript with a click.

You can leave javascript enabled. To permanently stop scripts from
disabling the right-click menu, it's Tools » Options » Web Features
» the 'advanced' button next to JavaScript » uncheck the box for
'Disable or replace context menus'. I thought it was unchecked by
default.

 

[dszady]

Really?

Can you name one?
That's what I thought.

 

[dszady]

Your OS ?

That looks like a question. And is it useful?

 

[dszady]

Windows.

Do you mean the cascading effect when one Windows app crashes and you
have to do a restart?

 

[dszady]

John Corliss wrote:




I have never had a problem. In the instances where you can't, you
might be selecting a graphic with text in it.

Come on! He knows the difference.
Usually on a graphic, the context-menu will ask to "Save image", "Save
Image as", "View Image", "Copy Image location" and so on.