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Been around for years...
Authored by: the_webmaestro on Aug 11, '04 11:22:59AM

If I'm not mistaken, every web browser since Netscape 2.x has had this feature (IE, Netscape, iCab, Opera, OmniWeb, etc.). I doubt it's been posted to many web sites, so I'm glad you did. Now everyone who's anyone will know... 8-)

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Been around for years...NOPE
Authored by: Anonymous on Aug 11, '04 11:43:27AM

Safari doesn't behave this way...

...and I tried it on Firefox, and it is cool!



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Even IE
Authored by: hamarkus on Aug 11, '04 01:52:24PM

This feature has been around in Mozilla as long as I can remember, even IE has it, which means it really has been around for years (when did the last feature update to IE happen, 2001?).



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Much much older
Authored by: zzen on Aug 11, '04 07:59:18PM

Dude, this thing is really old. You know - it's older then the whole IE on the Mac. The even older then the whole IE! I've been using Netscape since version 1.1 (was that back in '95 or am I already too senile?). I think the contextual menus were really implemented in 2.0 as the original poster said. So about '96 or so. Which is like a millennium before 2001 in web terms.

Actually, at that time, there was still System 7. No contextual menus there! And the Mac had a one-button mouse. So the Netscape engineers had to think of a work-around to implement the Windows features. That's where this click-and-hold came from.



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It's just Safari
Authored by: zzen on Aug 11, '04 08:01:48PM

So, just to sum it up, I believe Safari is the first Mac browser NOT having this feature. I guess Apple wanted to unify the contextual menu workings of OS and browser.



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Been around for years...
Authored by: JimMueller on Aug 11, '04 04:22:20PM

I had become so accustomed to this hold-for-drop-down behaviour in my Mac browsers (Netscape 2+, M$IE, Mozilla and now FireFox) that when I use Safari (Adobe's Help files always open in it, even though I have FireFox as my default) I wind up wondering why nothing happens when I continue to hold the button down...



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