There are JavaScript hooks for copying and pasting? The only ones that I have seen (e.g. bit.ly) rely on Flash. (I see this because I'm running flashblock and have to explicitly tell the Flash applet to run.)
Peter
On Nov 29, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Sean Hannan wrote:
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> There are JS hooks for cutting and pasting (it's how certain websites add
> their little source: tag when you "excerpt" from one of their articles), but
> the support is very spotty[1]. And nothing is going to let you detect
> cutting and pasting from the URL bar.
>
> [1] http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/events/cutcopypaste.html
>
> -Sean
>
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> Sean Hannan
> Web Developer
> Sheridan Libraries
> Johns Hopkins University
>
> On 11/29/10 1:49 PM, "Ken Irwin" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have just, for the severalth time, just talked to a student who had lost a
>> bunch of work in a common way: he had copied-and-pasted a bunch of
>> database-content URLs on the fairly-reasonable (but, of course, incorrect)
>> assumption that those URLs would get him back to the content later. He
>> happened to be in LexisNexis, but it happens in lots of databases.
>>
>> Here's what I'm wondering: is there any tasteful/sane way of using JavaScript
>> to detect when a user clicks into the URL bar and copies/cuts the URL from a
>> page that will do the user no good later? It would, to my mind, be completely
>> civilized for the database provider to generate a little popup window alerting
>> the user to the error of their ways.
>>
>> User education would be great, of course, but some sort of built-in alert
>> would be very friendly.
>>
>> What think you all? Would JS or some similar tool be able to achieve this?
>>
>> Ken
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