Ray Ozzie on Clipboard for the Web
March 8th, 2006 // 2:03 pm @ Amar
We are so used to Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V in working with any application. But we never wondered why we could not do that in web application. We made do with the standard text copy paste features of the browser.
Ray Ozzie showcased a new live clipboard in the O’Reilly eTech conference which is pretty neat and cool. Frank Gruber of Somewhat Frank has some concerns about a need of standard datastructures to support this initiative. I completely agree with him.
Now all we need is a standardised way of implementing this so that it is not just limited to a single application but can be a truly independent web clipboard capable of sharing data between web applications irrespective of the codebase behind the clipboard feature. The worst case would be that we all start taking this concept and implementing it in our applications in innumerable different incompatible ways. It would be great if Microsoft releases a standard set of functions or at least minimum inter-operability requirements within the next few days, before people start coming up with thier own independent ways. We should be able to extend and implement it as we want, but some base features should be decided upon for everyone’s benefit.
Read the original post by Ray. Also there is a simple web based demo which you can try to check out this cool feature.
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