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changing this behavior will break many sites. slack, discourse, Gmail chat/Hangouts , Facebook messenger, and I'm guessing discord etc. Most chat sites seem to

changing this behavior will break many sites. slack, discourse, Gmail chat/Hangouts , Facebook messenger, and I'm guessing discord etc. Most chat sites seem to want their own emoji. Gmail replaces emoji with Google's. Discourse claims to do it to make it consistent across devices and they got angry when I asked for an option to disable the conversion and just leave things plain text. In order for all of these to work they have to let you select your chat messages with their embedded images and then convert that back to utf8 if you copy

pavel_lishin 7y ago
> changing this behavior will break many sites. slack, discourse, Gmail chat/Hangouts , Facebook messenger, and I'm guessing discord etc. How will it break any of those sites? If you mean that it won't copy-and-paste formatting, which is encoded in a mark-down like syntax, then that's true - but most of the time when I copy something on a website, the formatting there rarely makes it through to another application (like any of the ones you mentioned) anyway, and most of the time when it _does_ survive the journey, I silently curse and try to remember what the "paste without formatting" hotkey is.
- greggman2 7y ago
  since HN doesn't allow emoji I can't post an example. without this feature what you copy in slack would be text <img src="happy.png"> text instead of text (@) text where (@) is actual utf8 emoji same for vscode/Monaco where the editor adds a clickable color box for css colors.
  - pavel_lishin 7y ago
    It'd be nice if browsers would copy an image's alt-attribute if you tried to copy some text that included an image; that would solve the problem. In any case, I would gladly give up the ability to copy-and-paste an emoji if it meant never again seeing a long line trying to link me to some website just because I had the audacity to copy three words from a news article.
carapace 7y ago
> changing this behavior will break many sites. Okay, add an opt-in? Letting the selection get hijacked on the way to the system clipboard silently is bogus.

pavel_lishin 7y ago

> changing this behavior will break many sites. slack, discourse, Gmail chat/Hangouts , Facebook messenger, and I'm guessing discord etc. How will it break any of those sites? If you mean that it won't copy-and-paste formatting, which is encoded in a mark-down like syntax, then that's true - but most of the time when I copy something on a website, the formatting there rarely makes it through to another application (like any of the ones you mentioned) anyway, and most of the time when it _does_ survive the journey, I silently curse and try to remember what the "paste without formatting" hotkey is.

greggman2 7y ago
since HN doesn't allow emoji I can't post an example. without this feature what you copy in slack would be text <img src="happy.png"> text instead of text (@) text where (@) is actual utf8 emoji same for vscode/Monaco where the editor adds a clickable color box for css colors.
- pavel_lishin 7y ago
  It'd be nice if browsers would copy an image's alt-attribute if you tried to copy some text that included an image; that would solve the problem. In any case, I would gladly give up the ability to copy-and-paste an emoji if it meant never again seeing a long line trying to link me to some website just because I had the audacity to copy three words from a news article.

carapace 7y ago

> changing this behavior will break many sites. Okay, add an opt-in? Letting the selection get hijacked on the way to the system clipboard silently is bogus.