This is probably why the click-to-copy share links don’t work with Flash 10:
Setting data on the system Clipboard requires user interaction
In Flash Player 9, ActionScript could set data on the system Clipboard at any time. With Flash Player 10, the System.setClipboard() method may be successfully called only through ActionScript that originates from user interaction. This [...]
A couple of days ago I noticed that the click-to-copy-to-clipboard share links at Skitch’s site stopped working. I thought it was because of MultiClutch, a program that gives you multi-touch inputs to all Cocoa programs, I wanted to be able to use 3-finger swipes left and right to navigate back and forward in Firefox. I [...]
You often see sites with text fields of share links in various different formats, like Skitch provides links to share the images you skitch, they look like this:
Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!
You often click the text box or a copy button next to it and the content is copied to your clipboard so you can paste [...]
Andrew Ng - Ruby on Rails consultant and photographer. My passions are photography, fashion, music, piano, coffee (ristretto). I also like sports car and HPDE's, mechanical watches, fountain pens, and cool gadgets.
