Can't paste into browser

Ken ktxl45 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 22 06:28:56 UTC 2009


On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:02:47 +0100, Werner Schram wrote:

> The login box of the guru.com site uses some tricks to prevent you from
> pasting values in the password field. If you look up the password
> control at the source of te page, you see that it includes:
> "onpaste="return false" oncontextmenu="return false"". I'm not sure why
> they would do that, but they do. I don't know why opera handles this
> differently, possibly they have a different interpretation of the
> onpaste tag.

This is really annoying.  I alerted them to the idea that some users 
might see this as a bug.  Thanks for picking up on this.  I didn't check 
since I didn't think that anyone would intentionally keep me from pasting 
a password.


-- 
Ken <ktxl45 at gmail.com>





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