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The ZeroClipboard library provides an easy way to copy text to the clipboard using an invisible Adobe Flash movie and a JavaScript interface.

8 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 0 stories, 8 comments · first 2015-05-21 · latest 2016-02-11

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  1. …elsewhere. Hallvord R. M. Steen, editor of the W3C Clipboard API spec, started working on it here: https://github.com/zeroclipboard/zeroclipboard/issues/171
    comment by cpeterso · 2016-02-11 · in Google is banning Flash from its display ads
  2. …is adding support for the HTML5 clipboard API , while retaining Flash fallback for older browsers: https://github.com/zeroclipboard/zeroclipboard/issues/171
    comment by cpeterso · 2015-09-30 · in Clipboard.js: Modern Copy to Clipboard
  3. ZeroClipboard doesn't use the HTML5 clipboard APIs yet, but there is an open issue: https://github.com/zeroclipboard/zeroclipboard/issues/171
    comment by cpeterso · 2015-08-28 · in Chrome will begin pausing many Flash ads by default on September 1
  4. https://github.com/zeroclipboard/zeroclipboard/issues/606 Submitted an issue, just in case.
    comment by arxpoetica · 2015-08-28 · in Chrome will begin pausing many Flash ads by default on September 1
  5. …is used by Github and lots of other sites for the little buttons next to repo URLs, etc. 1 - https://github.com/zeroclipboard/zeroclipboard 2 - http://caniuse.com/#search=clipboard
    comment by michaelbuckbee · 2015-08-28 · in Chrome will begin pausing many Flash ads by default on September 1
  6. Detecting and preferring HTML clipboard API is on ZeroClipboard's roadmap: https://github.com/zeroclipboard/zeroclipboard/issues/580 https://github.com/zeroclipboard/zeroclipboard/issues/171
    comment by cpeterso · 2015-08-21 · in Amazon joins in on killing Flash, stops accepting Flash ads
  7. …IE. More discussion (in the issue tracker for ZeroClipbboard, a popular Flash clipboard utility): https://github.com/zeroclipboard/zeroclipboard/issues/580
    comment by cpeterso · 2015-07-13 · in Facebook's new chief security officer wants to set a date to kill Flash
  8. This was already possible on desktop using the following flash polyfill: https://github.com/zeroclipboard/zeroclipboard . So on desktop at least this doesn't introduce any new threats, so this seems a little strongly worded to me.
    comment by owencm · 2015-05-21 · in Clipboard Hijacking with HTML5 in Chrome