> But - What do you do if that website does not allow cut/copy/paste in the > first place?
I would use language not permitted in polite society. I'd probably also complain to the webmaster. Fortunately I haven't run into that particular piece of idiocy. I have, alas, run into sites where I can't copy text, or it only allows me to copy a large block of text instead of just the text I want. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Elardus Engelbrecht <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 1:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Email validation (was Re: Mainframe Report meets abrupt end | Computerworld Shark Tank) John McKown wrote: >So I type the password in on a text editor, then cut'n'paste it into the web >site. Good approach where you can't see what you typed in the first place and you don't want to go the hassle to reset your id. But - What do you do if that website does not allow cut/copy/paste in the first place? Yes, it is about security or some other lame excuses, something about blocking website robot crawlers, spiders or weirdos ... I have encountered such pages where I want to copy into or out from some text and then it is as if my mouse clickery is disabled/broken, or so it looks to me. Such websites also don't allow marking/selecting text for cut/copy/paste operations. If I repeat same actions on say NotePad, then such operations are suddenly working. I would be crying ashamed if I design such a website, but then it is just me... ;-) Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
