How did Microsoft create this bug anyway?

[Harlan Messinger]

I would *think* that the part of the code for Internet Explorer that
handles scrollbar clicks would be so far removed from anything
security related that in a billion years there would be no way for
someone working on security leaks to *accidentally* cause the
scrollbar to jump two pages for every click.

I would *also* think that the fix would be extraordinarily simple:
just change the scrollbar handler back the way it was. With the
millions of people this is now annoying, why is Microsoft taking so
long to provide a bug fix?

I wouldn't bother posting this if it were just the usual Microsoft
grouse. I'm writing because I'm flabbergasted by the whole thing. It
just doesn't make any *sense*.

 

[FrankV]

Someone else, probably in this list, mentioned it was changed specifically
by MS to work like this. In other words it is not a 'bug' as far as they are
concerned.


Frank

 

[Harlan Messinger]

That sounds really unlikely. Why out of the blue and with no warning
would they change the function of the scrollbar in exactly one
application so that it works differently from the way it works in
every other application, and differently from the way to which people
have been accustomed since the very beginning of Windows 15 or more
years ago?

 

[FrankV]

I agree with you 100% but I just wanted you to know about this. Many other
people, including me, are complaining about the same thing.

Frank

 

[Kevin]

What scrollbar click? None of the scrollbars in my current version of IE do
this. They behave themselves and only scroll where and when I want them to.

 

[Harlan Messinger]

I take it you haven't loaded the security update for November 2003,
from Knowledge Base article Q824245.

 

[Harlan Messinger]

Apparently it was a bug. I don't know why you thought it wasn't.
They've fixed it with the latest patches. They had also broken a
couple of other things at the same time as the scrollbar. See
http://tinylink.com/?p4D4MotP21