Re:Don't Copy-Paste from Website to Terminal
by hollerith on Sunday April 07, 2013 @04:24PM
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Maybe I am wrong, but I have been assuming that if the maintainers of the browsers cared only about readers and writers (and not about application users and application developers, or potential customers and marketers) they would change the browsers so that what is copied into the clipboard is exactly the text that has been highlighted and is visible on the page and nothing more. Even if browsers worked that way, they can have text positioning.
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Re:Don't Copy-Paste from Website to Terminal
by icebraining on Sunday April 07, 2013 @06:05PM
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If browsers were pure document viewers, I think it's much more likely that they would simply have only a maintainer or two, and most developers currently maintaining browsers would be doing more valuable and interesting work, like developing application platforms.
And that couple of maintainers would probably still have more important things to fix than what's essentially a curious but not really problematic bug.