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I'm not going to pretend that HTML5+Javascript can easily replication Flash functionality, but I'm pretty sure it can handle copy-to-clipboard. Edit forehead s
by RyanMcGreal 17y ago
I'm not going to pretend that HTML5+Javascript can easily replication Flash functionality, but I'm pretty sure it can handle copy-to-clipboard.
Edit forehead slap. The last time I had to write a script to copy to clipboard was several years ago and I was targeting the script for IE on a company intranet. I stand humbly (and foolishly) corrected.
- kylebragger 17y agoHm, that would be great — I'd love to see an example of this.
- warfangle 17y agoTypically you'll get a selection object, get the range object, and .execCommand("Copy") on it. Unfortunately it only really works in IE (afaik); it used to work in FF if you got the Allow Clipboard Access plugin, but even that's been disabled. It could potentially be a huge security risk, which is why it's had to be sandboxed into plugins like flash.
- zmmmmm 17y ago>It could potentially be a huge security risk, Why is copying data into the clipboard a security risk? > which is why it's had to be sandboxed into plugins like flash. But it's already in a sandbox (the browser). Why do we need a sandbox inside the sandbox? I really don't understand what the huge deal is with this. It's almost harder to get some plain text onto the clipboard than it is to get the user to run a .exe.
- piranha 17y agoIt can't as long as I know. :(