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We have a bunch of laptops at school running Windows 10 with Edge. Students can't copy and paste into Google Docs while using Edge. Was this a deliberate choic

by japhyr 11y ago

We have a bunch of laptops at school running Windows 10 with Edge. Students can't copy and paste into Google Docs while using Edge. Was this a deliberate choice by Microsoft to steer people away from Google products, or is it something more benign than that?

simoncion 11y ago
I know a guy who works on core web-dev stuff at Google. He tells me that Edge is often very quirky in very subtle ways. He's had to spend many, many hours diagnosing, reporting, and working around quirks in Edge. These quirks sometimes get fixed and sometimes do not, but are often not present in Internet Explorer.
- ygra 11y ago
  We have a fairly large-ish JS codebase at work and from what I saw so far is that Edge's JS was never a problem. SVG rendering on the other hand is horribly broken currently for some cases. That being said, since our JS is generated, it's purely ES5 since it still has to run on IE9. So maybe the weird cases are in the more modern JS parts we don't use.
soared 11y ago
This is just how google docs/scheets/slides etc. works on every browser and every OS.
pimpl 11y ago
I had similar problems using Google Docs on Safari too, so I think it’s just a bug on Google’s side.
- simoncion 11y ago
  AIUI, Safari is the IE6 of the "Modern Web".
  - simoncion 11y ago
    For the downvoters: Go make friends with someone who works on Safari, then take them out for drinks. You'll understand why I'm saying what I'm saying. :)
thekodols 11y ago
If it fails when they paste via right-click menu, it's actually a known issue/design decision on Drive's side. Try using shortcuts instead.
- simoncion 11y ago
  > If it fails when they paste via right-click menu, it's actually a known issue/design decision on Drive's side. I expect that if this were the problem, OP wouldn't be mentioning it. When you attempt to use the right-click menu to copy and paste, you get a clearly-worded message box that tells you that you need to use the keyboard shortcuts, and which keyboard shortcuts to use.

by japhyr 11y ago

simoncion 11y ago

I know a guy who works on core web-dev stuff at Google. He tells me that Edge is often very quirky in very subtle ways. He's had to spend many, many hours diagnosing, reporting, and working around quirks in Edge. These quirks sometimes get fixed and sometimes do not, but are often not present in Internet Explorer.

ygra 11y ago
We have a fairly large-ish JS codebase at work and from what I saw so far is that Edge's JS was never a problem. SVG rendering on the other hand is horribly broken currently for some cases. That being said, since our JS is generated, it's purely ES5 since it still has to run on IE9. So maybe the weird cases are in the more modern JS parts we don't use.

soared 11y ago

This is just how google docs/scheets/slides etc. works on every browser and every OS.

pimpl 11y ago

I had similar problems using Google Docs on Safari too, so I think it’s just a bug on Google’s side.

simoncion 11y ago
AIUI, Safari is the IE6 of the "Modern Web".
- simoncion 11y ago
  For the downvoters: Go make friends with someone who works on Safari, then take them out for drinks. You'll understand why I'm saying what I'm saying. :)

thekodols 11y ago

If it fails when they paste via right-click menu, it's actually a known issue/design decision on Drive's side. Try using shortcuts instead.

simoncion 11y ago
> If it fails when they paste via right-click menu, it's actually a known issue/design decision on Drive's side. I expect that if this were the problem, OP wouldn't be mentioning it. When you attempt to use the right-click menu to copy and paste, you get a clearly-worded message box that tells you that you need to use the keyboard shortcuts, and which keyboard shortcuts to use.