Gag me with a JavaScript
There’s a municipal election today and I came across Elizabeth Crowley’s Web site. She’s running for school board. I’m not sure what bothers me most: That she decided to disable the right mouse button (context menu) on her Web site and have an annoying message pop up instead, that JavaScript allows you to disable the right mouse button, or that Mozilla implements that aspect of JavaScript.
Regardless, I think I’ll be voting for someone else.
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Ick. On Solaris running Netscape 7.0, however, the javascript message does not consistently appear when I click right-most mouse button (which looking at the javascript, should have been captured, since it binds buttons 2 and 3); most of the time I get the context menu, but sometimes I get the annoying popup (even when, to the best of my ability to tell, the clicks are in the same place). When I click the middle button, I always get the message *and* a new tab containing the element.
Was the JavaScript a critical factor in deciding your vote? Whether it was or not, did you write her and say that it was?
Comment by Brian — April 8, 2003 @ 1:29 pm
Was the JavaScript a critical factor in deciding your vote? Whether it was or not, did you write her and say that it was?
I was already leaning towards voting for somebody else. This did help to cement it, though. I haven’t written her: The timing’s a little off, since the polls close in five hours. If she wins and reads my letter, she doesn’t have to care. On the other hand, it seems a little insensitive to send a “why I didn’t vote for you” letter to someone who’s already lost. Maybe I’ll wait and see how the election turns out before I make up my mind.
Comment by Alexei Kosut — April 8, 2003 @ 1:36 pm