dude chill. It would be the site that was annoying you, not the browser. 
  Feel free not to visit sites that annoy you...I don't care.
It's used for many other things, emulating a user click is a very handy 
shortcut for a lot of situations, like innerHTML. It's just really handy 
for styling the file input widget, which only IE is able to style at 
all. Mozilla gives the developer no control over it at all.

The reason most sites look horrible in Netscape 4.x these days is 
because developers were not given the power the IE gave them, so they 
stopped developing for it. Probably because someone was afraid a feature 
would annoy some nit-picker *cough*.

jon
DeMoN LaG wrote:

> jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12
> Jan 2002: 
> 
>>
>>Sorry, I should have elaborated. In IE you can emulate the user
>>clicking a button with the click() function. For instance, if you
>>have an input type="file" form field. In IE I can do
>>formName.formField.click() and the file browse window will come up.
>>
> 
> That's not a "feature", that's an annoyance!  Nobody, but nobody, should 
> ever have a web page that prompts me for a file without me doing 
> anything.  That's just bad behavior.  I hope code to this affect never 
> goes in
> 
> 


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