Posted by Paul Blay on 01/19/92 11:28

"john graesser" <graesser@tca.net> wrote ...
> On a related note, I tried cutting and pasting text from a website yesterday
> and was surprised when IE announced that the text was copyright and wouldn't
> copy the text. I had to manually retype the info that I needed from the
> site

Mug.

> this is the sort of user unfriendliness that the world is going to. I
> didn't try using IE on my win95 box to see if it was blocked as well, I
> don't know how far back Microsoft wrote that code into IE.

It almost certainly wasn't code written into IE but plain old Javascript.

There are any number of ways to get around those sort of 'blocks',
post a link to the web page and I can check which work, but one of
the easiest is to "View -> Source" and copy from there.

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