“Copy to clipboard” functionality is something we all use dozens of times daily but the client side API around it has always been lacking; some older APIs and browser implementations required a scary “are you sure?”-style dialog before the content would be copied to clipboard — not great for usability or trust. About seven years back I blogged about ZeroClipboard, a solution for copying content to the clipboard in a more novel way…
…and by novel way I mean using Flash. Hey — we all hate on Flash these days but functionality is always the main goal and it was quite effective for this purpose so we have to admit it was a decent solution. Years later we have a better, Flash-free solution: clipboard.js.
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