[WEB4LIB] Netscape, the right mouse button, the desktop, frames, etc.

[Teri Titus]

On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Charlie Crawford wrote:

> We use Ikiosk to disable the right mouse button within Netscape. We do
> this primarily so students won't change the desktop wallpaper. So far so
> good. However, we feature to students the print preview capability of
> Netscape, and it is not possible to print preview a framed page. A
> solution to the previewing-a-framed paged problem is to open the frame
> in a new window. One does this with the right mouse button. Therein lies
> our problem.

At least some framed pages will do a print preview without opening a new
window.  Left click within the frame you want to print or print preview,
then select either...


   http://www.kalmbach.com/astro/astronomy.html

is an example of a frames I can print preview without a right mouse click
(using Netscape 3.04)

All our public Internet terminals have the right mouse button disabled; so
far it has not been a problem.

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Teri Titus, Belmont Branch Library, SMCo
1110 Alameda, Belmont, CA 94002
titust at pls.lib.ca.us
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> The question is: has anyone found a way to protect the desktop from
> unintended backgrounds without disabling the right mouse button in
> Netscape. All of our public access machines run Windows 95. I researched
> the archive to see if this had been addresses before, but I did not find
> an answer to this.
> 
> Thanks in advance. Charlie
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> Charlie Crawford                         email:
> ccrawfor at tcc.tacoma.ctc.edu
> Library Unit Manager
> http://www.tacoma.ctc.edu/library
> Tacoma Community College
> 6501 South 19th St.
> Tacoma, WA 984666
> 253-566-5091
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