Whoa -- good question. I don't think there is a hook in JavaScript that is
running within a page to detect whether a user is manipulating the address bar
(e.g. selecting it and copying its contents). Such an alert would be possible
in the case of browser plugins, but then the browser would have to have the
plug-in.
Peter
On Nov 29, 2010, at 1:49 PM, Ken Irwin wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have just, for the severalth time, just talked to a student who had lost a
> bunch of work in a common way: he had copied-and-pasted a bunch of
> database-content URLs on the fairly-reasonable (but, of course, incorrect)
> assumption that those URLs would get him back to the content later. He
> happened to be in LexisNexis, but it happens in lots of databases.
>
> Here's what I'm wondering: is there any tasteful/sane way of using JavaScript
> to detect when a user clicks into the URL bar and copies/cuts the URL from a
> page that will do the user no good later? It would, to my mind, be completely
> civilized for the database provider to generate a little popup window
> alerting the user to the error of their ways.
>
> User education would be great, of course, but some sort of built-in alert
> would be very friendly.
>
> What think you all? Would JS or some similar tool be able to achieve this?
>
> Ken
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