An interesting bug but..
>
> That's largely the state of affairs (although ctrl-click vs,
> right-click might produce some variation); see bug 312714
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312714> for more of the
> gory story.
>

after all is said and done, _no one_, _no program_ should be able to
reach into my computer and alter the way it is intended to work. That
is a violation of how many basic human interface guidelines?

In the say  vein, I think mIRC's implementation of colours in irc text
is the same kind of violation. It is most noticeable when some user
chooses to prescribe black as the colour for his text to be displayed
in even though my chosen background colour is black.

As a security measure to prevent copyright infringement it is pretty
feeble since there are any number of programs which will easily reach
behind and copy the said documents with no problem at all. A much
easier and less easily defeated way of preventing copying is the use
of invisible gifs or png's over the documents. That's not undefinable
either but infinitely more confusing at first.

Basically website creators and authors ought not to be able to or
allowed to reach beyond the bounds of their own sites into my
computer.

Cheers,
David

P.S. I didn't see a new bug reported on that page, hopefully one will
be opened and show up in the new bugs list at some point.

-- 
David Fedoruk
"Music is enough for one's life time, but one life time is not enough
for music" Sergei Rachmaninov
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