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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: > > 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 > > --- > Sean Hannan > Web Developer > Sheridan Libraries > Johns Hopkins University > > On 11/29/10 1:49 PM, "Ken Irwin" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> 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 -- Peter Murray [log in to unmask] tel:+1-678-235-2955 Assistant Director http://dltj.org/about/ Lyrasis -- Great Libraries. Strong Communities. Innovative Answers. The Disruptive Library Technology Jester http://dltj.org/ Attrib-Noncomm-Share http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/