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That's why they only get the ability to programmatically trigger cut and copy, not paste.
by om2 11y ago
That's why they only get the ability to programmatically trigger cut and copy, not paste.
- frou_dh 11y agoI guess there's room for an attack of irritation where a user with something meaningful on their clipboard unwittingly triggers having it overwritten by some nonsense. (Most clipboards effectively being a single mutable item without history or stack/queue behaviour).
- scrollaway 11y agoThere's easier ways to irritate your users. Most websites irritate their users, actually.
- frou_dh 11y agoSpeaking of clipboard shenanigans. Could be imagining it, but I seem to remember a while ago there being something certain websites were doing where if you selected and copied text from them, the text that ended up on your clipboard would have a synthesized paragraph about copyright/attribution appended to it.
- scrollaway 11y agoYeah, occured to me reading that comment. Lyrics websites used to do it a lot (probably still do). I believe they use invisible text.
- copperx 11y agoiBooks does exactly that; it irritates me to no end. I know why they do it, but still.
- jsjohnst 11y agoYeah, many tech news sites used to do this. I'm not positive, but I think TechCrunch did at one point, I could be wrong though. Absolutely hate it personally!
- ascagnel_ 11y agoTynt basically did this exact thing as a business model[0]. [0] http://daringfireball.net/2010/05/tynt_copy_paste_jerks http://daringfireball.net/2010/05/tynt_copy_paste_jerks
- chiph 11y agoMozilla has it documented. Didn't see anything on the linked site. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/execCommand https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/ex...
- masklinn 11y agoFirefox only makes execCommand("paste") available in trusted contexts aka extensions. You can't execCommand("paste") on a regular web page for fairly obvious security reasons.