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0 pointslondons_explore3y ago0 comments

I find the clipboard increasingly broken for this usecase...

Imagine I want to copy an image from a webpage into an email... And then the paste fails because the email client tries to download the image but doesn't have the correct cookies and fails...

Or I want to copy a file from Google drive onto a USB. But when you copy from the Google drive webUI it just copies the name of the file, not the file itself...

Or I copy an image from Google images and the thumbnail low Res version is copied rather than the full res version.

Copy and paste, and drag and drop, seem to be neglected on the web.

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aasasd3y ago

> I want to copy an image from a webpage into an email... And then the paste fails because the email client tries to download the image.

Personally I haven't had this problem: just like the article says, the browser ‘copies’ image data with a correct mime-type, and the other app pastes the image if it knows about that mime-type. This is on MacOS, with Firefox.

(Though, again personally, I now usually scale the image and convert to webp before sending in a chat—I don't do much email. This way I'm avoiding 4K 4MB pics. I'm probably gonna make me a browser extension to do this automatically.)

You're right however that drag-n-drop doesn't work so smoothly yet.

Tistron3y ago

I often find myself taking screenshots of pictures for that reason. It's not webp, but also not 4k.

867-53093y ago

those are limitations of the browser, not the OS

londons_exploreOP3y ago

But the user doesn't care whose fault it is. The end result is they get a poor and frustrating experience.

johnchristopher3y ago

It's the user's fault, though.

If they don't understand the difference between copy pasting HTML with an image inside the tag soup (select with mouse a bunch of text and image and right click copy) and an image (hover image and right click "copy image") then there's not much anybody can do.

Do you want clippy in the browser "looks like you are trying to copy an image" ?

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