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  3. September 2003

Re: Modify the IE Browser

Eyers, Daniel wrote: 
I'm really interested in why you would want to do this...  I would suspect 
there may reasons to do it as part of an
intranet site, maybe...  Out in the wild, I think you'd get a lot of push back.

Sites that do that to me on the Internet get a swift F11 or Alt-F4. Or an End Task; they never get my $$$.

But I'd like to hear another viewpoint... I want to understand why folks do that....

thanks (looking forward to your reply)


I'm with you, only more so. I run my browsers with JavaScript disabled by default. For any untrusted web site, if JS is needed to get around, I take that as a very strong hint that the site is not worth visiting.

Cheers! Hans



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