[rt-users] Removing space from passwords and user login

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 12:15:44PM -0700, Russ Johnson wrote:
> Brian W. Spolarich wrote:
> >rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com wrote:
> >> e.g. if
> >>you doubleclick on a word in internet explorer, you always
> >>get an extra space included.
> >
> >  This is true of Firefox as well, although in both instances the extra
> >space is at the end, not the beginning.
> >
> >  I guess this is a feature, not a bug. :-)
> 
> I suspect it's a windowism, as it doesn't happen in firefox on my linux 
> system.
> 
> It also does it notepad on Windows, and wordpad. But it doesn't do it on 
> words that have a comma or period after them.
> 
> OK, enough testing. I think it's just something about Windows.

It's very specifically IE, so far as I can tell.  It *is* a bit
difficult to copy text which is a link, but IE *purposefully* adjusts
what it thinks you're trying to select, making it ompletely impossible
to select certain things, no matter which way you drag.

Cheers,
-- jra
-- 
Jay R. Ashworth                                                jra at baylink.com
Designer                          Baylink                             RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates        The Things I Think                        '87 e24
St Petersburg FL USA      http://baylink.pitas.com             +1 727 647 1274

      If you can read this... thank a system administrator.  Or two.  --me