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Preventing Selection
Dave
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 607
Best Total: 1h 0m 33s
Posted - 2006.01.31 08:10:25
Hi Foilman!

I was wondering if you'd consider the following changes to the kwontom loop puzzle page?

In trying to complete puzzles quickly I find myself selecting text and images on the game board when I'm trying to place x's or lines (I somehow manage to click-move-release with the mouse instead of click-release-move and I do this irritatingly often).

It's possible to disable selection of stuff in webpages as per these instructions:
http://www.ditchnet.org/wp/2005/06/15/ajax-freakshow-drag-n-drop-events-2/

IE needs a tidbit of javascript and Firefox/Safari/Konqueror need some CSS gubbins. Not sure about Opera, but then I don't use it Of course, in a perfect world, the CSS3 'user-select' property would fix this for all browsers...
foilman
Kwon-Tom Admin
Puzzles: 3384
Best Total: 24m 6s
Posted - 2006.01.31 08:43:00
Good idea Dave! I do get that scenario a bit myself, and it does distract from getting a good time... I'll have a look into it.
foilman
Kwon-Tom Admin
Puzzles: 3384
Best Total: 24m 6s
Posted - 2006.01.31 18:48:33
Ok, in theory this should be working now. When you're clicking in the puzzle you should no longer get the shaded selection area if you drag accidentally. I've tested it on Firefox & IE on Windows.
drnull
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 1053
Best Total: 23m 25s
Posted - 2006.01.31 20:14:21
Quote:
Originally Posted by foilman
Ok, in theory this should be working now. When you're clicking in the puzzle you should no longer get the shaded selection area if you drag accidentally. I've tested it on Firefox & IE on Windows.

Looks great here on Firefox/Linux.  Thanks for that addition.
Dave
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 607
Best Total: 1h 0m 33s
Posted - 2006.02.01 18:03:35
That was quick! Thanks!
OldBean
Kwon-Tom Fan
Puzzles: 52
Best Total: 2h 15m 2s
Posted - 2006.03.08 03:38:19
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it's not fixed in Safari on OS X.

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