The annoying right-click thing is gone!
InstantSpotI have had a number of (very valid) comments about the annoying right-click behavior on my blog, and on all the InstantSpot blogs for that matter. Here is the story behind the right-click thing and why it was even there in the first place. When we were designing InstantSpot, we wanted some common way for the Spots to still be an extension of the network, with links back to key features, friend sites, network-wide searching, plus we wanted to include a search capability for each site. The DOJO browser bar widget seemed like an ideal solution... in development. Once we rolled into production, we found that not only did the widget load *terribly* slowly, but it also included that silly right click thing.
While I am sure there is someway to disable that (we didn't look very hard!), we were so irritated with the loading of the bar, that we decided to kill it altogether for something home grown. We added it to the enhancements list, and this past week it finally made it to the top.
To that end, Aaron Lynch created our own browser bar that gives us the same functionality minus all the suckage!
Hopefully you will notice the difference, and we will have lessened the annoyance factor a bit. :)
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