Posted by Dave D on 01/19/56 11:28

"Paul Blay" <ask_me_or_get_spam_trapped@saotome.demon.co.uk> wrote in
message news:dhs09d$g1p$1$830fa7a5@news.demon.co.uk...
> "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.

Or dump IE altogether and use a decent browser like Firefox. It has some
rather useful plugins.

Dave

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