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Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 08/13/07 07:51
Scripsit Dave Kelly:
> This is my thread so I am going to hijack it for another question.
That's so idiotic an idea that it's almost amusing. Of course, you now
hijack your own second question to protect it from all those readers of this
group who are experts on its topic - after all, busy experts will skip
threads that have uninteresting (to them) Subject lines.
> Is the right click function for the use of the browser only
No, many other programs have click functions too.
> or can I
> intercept the signal and use it for my own desires?
You can, but you should not, especially since you had to ask.
> I would like to left click to go to the URL and right click to go to
> another folder where I can read/write a report on that person.
Stop wanting that. Use different links for different purposes. That way, you
will let all people access the information, even if (for example) it is
physically impossible to them to click on anything.
In an ideal world, we might have multi-destination links defined as part of
HTML and implemented in brilliant ways. In this real world, we have to stop
dreaming, since attempts at implementing such ideas in a per-site way will
just become a nightmare. Your site is not an island, and your visitors spend
most of their time on other sites, and they just don't want to learn (or
just won't learn) a new paradigm of linking and link use when they drop in.
> Is that possible?
With severe limitations, it is, but you should not even try.
Since this is alt.html in all its vagueness and charterlessness, someone may
well pop up an throw some JavaScript code at you and tell you to put it into
an onrightclick="..." attribute or something like that. If that happens,
just duck.
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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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