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TkTech on Oct 18, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: What Is Google Chrome Helper, and Why Is It Hoggin...

In what browser is Flash still required? I've been doing:

    to_clipboard = (text) ->
        textarea = document.getElementById "copy-workaround"
        textarea.value = text
        textarea.select()
        document.execCommand "copy", false, null

In chrome for years.

timothya on Oct 18, 2014 [–]

That code doesn't work (at least in ordinary page scripts), as far as I can tell.

http://jsfiddle.net/vej6vbdt/

TkTech on Oct 21, 2014 | [–]

You're entirely right, after looking into it a bit, it seems it's blocked now in everything but content pages (which is where I use it)

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