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November 20, 2004
Goodbye, NYPost
UPDATE: Our good friend Bob tells me in the comments that right-click is no longer disabled at the NYPost website. It was giving a copyright notice when I right-clicked. Now it is working correctly.
For several years now, the NYPost has been the first newspaper I read when I got up. Not any more. Why?
Go right-click on any page at the NYPost website.
Cute, innit?
I won't be back.
Posted by Rita at November 20, 2004 09:23 AM
Comments
I'm confused. I went there, right-clicked a link, and it opened w/o a problem. What weirdness are you seeing?
Posted by: Bob at November 21, 2004 07:52 PM
It was running a Javascript that disables the right-click mouse function. Instead of giving a menu when you right-click, it was showing a pop-up box which described their copyright.
Which not only disables your ability to quote from their site, but it also disables your ability to open their articles in a new window and everything else.
Maybe they've taken it off now.
Posted by: rita at November 22, 2004 05:36 AM
Very odd. Has it been removed or is it browser-dependent? I tried it with Safari on OS X and Firefox on Windows and had no problems.
Posted by: Bob at November 22, 2004 08:19 AM
They must've removed it b/c right-click is working now in IE. The script may very well be browser dependent, I'm not sure. The one I have looks something like this:
"if (navigator.appName == 'Netscape' && (e.which == 3 || e.which == 2)) return false;
else if (navigator.appName == 'Microsoft Internet
Explorer' && (event.button == 2 || event.button == 3))
{
alert('This Page is fully protected!');
return false;"
I'm too much of a newbie in Javascript to know whether or not this would disable right-click in other browsers like FireFox....but since I've been planning to download FireFox anyway, I'll check it out & see.
It just pissed me off b/c I always right-click & open articles in a new window so I don't have to wait for the freakin' main page graphics to re-load....which takes forever. I'm not very patient first thing in the morning.
; )
Posted by: rita at November 22, 2004 08:37 AM
I have tried it with IE6 (W98 & W2K) and Firefox 0.8 (W98) and 1.0 (W2k) and right click works with both.
I prefer using Firefox with the open in tabs behind feature you get after installing the "Tabbrowser Preferences" extension. I just hold down the (CTRL) key as I click on the link and it opens in a new tab in the background. Sweet.
Best of Luck with your usage.
/Tom
Posted by: The Thomas at November 22, 2004 12:47 PM
Yep, it's working now. But it wasn't the day I posted. I even had Mike try it on his computer to make sure it wasn't just me.
I should've done a screen capture, but I didn't think of it at the time.
Posted by: rita at November 22, 2004 12:52 PM