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Copy to clipboard, apparently. (Github project pages have a flash application to handle this)

• realityking 11y ago
  Good news, we're getting there. In Chrome 43 and (probably) Firefox it's supported: http://caniuse.com/#search=clipb http://caniuse.com/#search=clipb (see note 3) However the API is god awful.
  • jumpwah 11y ago
    Isn't this like a huge security risk?
    • mrec 11y ago
      Why? Copy FROM clipboard would be, sure. Copy TO clipboard... OK, I can come up with scenarios where it'd be a problem, but they're pretty far-fetched.
      • gsnedders 11y ago
        Run a timer overwriting your clipboard every 10ms. Prevent you from copying anything off a webpage and instead replacing it with a copyright notice. Etc., etc., etc.
        • realityking 11y ago
          There's a permission prompt for first use and I think Mozilla considers making it https only.
        • cpeterso 11y ago
          Flash has offered these same clipboard APIs for years and these clipboard "attacks" have never been a problem before. I don't see how replacing Flash clipboard APIs with HTML clipboard APIs will change web developers' behavior.
      • Crito 11y ago
        Well there are attacks in the vein of this: https://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste https://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste
  • gsnedders 11y ago
    > However the API is god awful. To be fair, it's basically a proprietary IE5 API that's now been standardised (like quite a few others).
• kedean 11y ago
  Is that why I keep getting notifications that github wants to use flash player? Good to know.