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		statictype on Aug 4, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How does Trello access the user's clipboard? I don't think normal web pages have access to the browser's clipboard. It's a security feature, I believe.

zetafunction on Aug 4, 2013 [–]

Normal web pages can't trigger copy/cut/paste events. They can access the clipboard via the events (which are automatically fired when the corresponding action is invoked by the user) documented in http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/clipops/.

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