> Why not just disable selection events all together. It was done in the
> dragEvent object way-back when.
> Simply put:
>     if (is.ie) // Prevents text selection when dragging.
>         document.onselectstart = function () { return false; };
> That stopped IE from selecting other text on the screen when a layer was
> being dragged.

So presumably you'd have to reverse the change onmouseout or onmouseup.

If you you use:

        if (is.ie) document.selection.clear();

you don't need to do that.

>The cancelBrowseEvent is not even needed in the label widget for it to
>work correctly.  The setting of the cursor (which is done too) seems
>to do excactly the same thing.  I removed the cancelBrowseEvent in IE
>5 and had no troubles with the examples.

Just changing the cursor didn't turn off selection on my IE5/Win

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