- From: Paul Libbrecht <paul@activemath.org>
- Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 11:05:23 +0100
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Web APIs WG <public-webapi@w3.org>
Jonas Sicking wrote: >> They want you to be able to quote the site in an email or chat >> message, etc. Plus you can always add a special copy command that >> bypasses the event if it does get abused (something that's harder to >> do for the existing selection control). > Yeah, this option was mentioned before. My issue with it is that users > might not really get what's going on and won't find (or even look for) > this new magical menu-item. I think it is a much better alternative, in terms of user access to functions, to offer a "copy text" and to offer a flag "use text selection", than to let browsers hunt for a hidden div! An interesting contribution might be to be able to characterize such copy ability the same way accessibility guidelines have done it! paul
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