Sweet Witch
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| quick coding question
Hey guys,
Is it possible to code a webpage to kill my scroll wheel? It seems to mainly be www.zap2it.com that does it, but not always. The minute I surf to another page, my scroll is working fine again.
Thanks 
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JAAulde
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1 edit | A webpage cannot permanently disable your scroll wheel as that would require some extremely unsafe access to your system's configuration. You could disable it yourself through your mosue setup, but I can't imagine why you'd want to anyway--through system prefs, a webpage, or any means...
Edit: BTW, my scroll wheel works just fine on the site you mentioned...is this post a joke...I am so confused now...  |
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Sweet Witch
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| It's not a joke, I don't post idiotic things. I was simply asking a question to begin to figure out why my scroll has such a problem on that webpage. If it's not in the coding of the page then I shift my search elsewhere.
Thank you.
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JAAulde
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1 edit | I didn't mean to accuse you of posting idiotic things...sorry. I just didn't fully understand your intent and question. With your follow up post I see that you're now wondering if that site can disable your scroll wheel while viewing it.
I believe the answer to that is yes, it can. JavaScript in the page could be 'listening' for the event that takes place when your scroll wheel is activated and cancel the event altogether thus stopping the behavior.
It could also be possible that this is taking place on that site, but that it isn't effecting me as I am on Mac and using Firefox.
I did a quick look through the JS on that page using Firebug and didn't see it happening, but that doesn't mean it's not.
Jim |
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cowboyro
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2 edits | reply to Sweet Witch
It is possible to disable the scroll wheel, only it will not be a "random" thing (unless the page is DESIGNED to randomly disable the scroll wheel)
Just put
and that's it...
Edit: this works in IE but not in FF |
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Sweet Witch
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Gallifrey | I'm using FireFox so I'm not sure what to think. |
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cowboyro
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Shelton, CT | There are ways to code onmousewheel events in FF so it is possible to do it, but for some reason I doubt someone not on drugs would disable scrolling on their page. |
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Sweet Witch
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| Hey, I used to live in Stratford on the Shelton line
I recently made some adjustments to how cookies are handled and that seems to be giving zap2it real trouble loading (so many ads that want to place cookies!!). That's about when the scrolling problem started. I've always had to wait until all those ads load to scroll with the wheel, but now it's taking forever to load the page and even when it's done I have to wait about 30 seconds before the wheel will work.
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McSummation
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Round Rock, TX | I just went there and it loaded quickly, no ads, and scrolling was immediate. I'm using FF 2.0.0.11 & AdBlockPlus. |
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Sweet Witch
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| It seems that it was a glitch in the site itself as this morning it's loading much faster and the scroll is working almost immediately.
Thanks guys
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