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That's why they only get the ability to programmatically trigger cut and copy, not paste.
Mozilla has it documented. Didn't see anything on the linked site. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/ex...
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I 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).
There's easier ways to irritate your users. Most websites irritate their users, actually.
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I do wonder why they didn't go with an API that other browsers are already supporting, though: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ClipboardEv...
Did you consider reading the page you linked to? Clipboard events are already supported by safari (which the page you've linked to notes) and they've got nothing to do with execCommand, they are about hooking and reacting to user-triggered clipboard operations e.g. the user pastes (via contextual menu or shortcut), the software can know about it and alter the content before it's pasted. execCommand is about programma…
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They did release Safari for Windows. Nobody used it, and I guess they figured the cost of upkeep wasn't worth it.
As an end user it was pretty bad (with all the libraries they were using). It mainly seemed to exist so Windows only shops could develop/test their websites on iPhones and iPads without having to own that hardware. As iPhones and iPads became ubiquitous (as well as the popularity of Macs with developers) that didn't seem to be enough reason to keep it going. I don't think Apple ever intended to win the browser war, I…
Also note that Google Chrome wasn't released until September 2008, so there was a year+ where Safari was the most prominent WebKit-based browser on Windows.
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They did release Safari for Windows. Nobody used it, and I guess they figured the cost of upkeep wasn't worth it.
As an end user it was pretty bad (with all the libraries they were using). It mainly seemed to exist so Windows only shops could develop/test their websites on iPhones and iPads without having to own that hardware. As iPhones and iPads became ubiquitous (as well as the popularity of Macs with developers) that didn't seem to be enough reason to keep it going. I don't think Apple ever intended to win the browser war, I…
Also note that Google Chrome wasn't released until September 2008, so there was a year+ where Safari was the most prominent WebKit-based browser on Windows.
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That's why they only get the ability to programmatically trigger cut and copy, not paste.
I 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).
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They did release Safari for Windows. Nobody used it, and I guess they figured the cost of upkeep wasn't worth it.
While it was pretty bad, I remember Safari for Windows rendering text much nicer than any Windows browser (or app) at the time - particularly, the font smoothing. I recall using Win Safari to take "marketing" screenshots of an web app.
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Did you consider reading the page you linked to? Clipboard events are already supported by safari (which the page you've linked to notes) and they've got nothing to do with execCommand, they are about hooking and reacting to user-triggered clipboard operations e.g. the user pastes (via contextual menu or shortcut), the software can know about it and alter the content before it's pasted. execCommand is about programma…
Did you consider removing the first sentence of your post and it would have been less smug and taunting, leaving behind something that lifts up the conversation?
Did you consider taking your own advice?
> leaving behind something that lifts up the conversation?
What are you talking about? There is no conversation, and what this subthread needs is not uplifting is euthanising.
Programmatic cut and copy to the clipboard It’s now possible to programmatically copy and cut text in response to a user gesture with document.execCommand('copy') and document.execCommand('cut'). Having this ability may eliminate some websites’ last need for the Flash plug-in. --- :'( - So much pain erased in a single stroke!
It's weird lapse for Safari to lag in certain situations. I hope they continue to iteratively improve the performance of the general UI and improve the general behavior of the developer tools in addition to adding these new techs.