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Except that the ability to copy is extremely useful. And creating more popup-approval fatigue doesn't help anyone. You are a super-user, so it might be the gi
by sam_goody 6y ago
Except that the ability to copy is extremely useful.
And creating more popup-approval fatigue doesn't help anyone.
You are a super-user, so it might be the git clone URL of a really long commit. That "click to copy" button on github is really useful.
The same scenario exists from Grandma, and she will click the popup or give up in frustration - neither of which is good.
IMO, sites should be able to have access to the copy buffer but not to the paste. Paste should be available to the user with ctrl+P. Definitely not perfect, but more mitigable.
- pavel_lishin 6y agoI don't think the putative Grandma has much need for copy-and-paste functionality from websites. And yes, there would be fatigue, and me-the-super-user would globally block those popups from coming up. It's honestly not worth it. I would miss it maybe once a month, which is about how often I get annoyed by something messing with it. Maybe a middle ground would be allowing websites to _insert_ things into the buffer, but not _modifying_ the buffer. (Though of course, they could just inspect what's highlighted on the page, and then flat out insert that plus their garbage, except I'd argue that I don't think they need to know what I've got highlighted, then you'd point out that that would break Google Docs, and I'd suggest another popup, and you'd say that Grandma can't handle the fatigue, etc., etc.)