By John Gruber
WorkOS: Let agents use your tools without giving them free rein.
Mark Pilgrim:
To sum up, you can turn text selection off by setting the
unselectableattribute to on, and then you can turn text selection back on by setting thedocument.expandoproperty to false. No other functionality is affected, and it only works in Internet Explorer.
★ Sunday, 1 April 2007