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		shark1 on Aug 21, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon joins in on killing Flash, stops accepting ... The only thing I will miss on flash is the Copy to clippboard feature (e.g http://zeroclipboard.org/). Is there other way to do the same when flash will be extinct?

dao- on Aug 21, 2015 | [–]

see document.execCommand("copy"), document.execCommand("cut"): https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/ex...

exodust on Aug 21, 2015 | | [–]

So in other words... NO.

cpeterso on Aug 21, 2015 | [–]

Detecting and preferring HTML clipboard API is on ZeroClipboard's roadmap:

https://github.com/zeroclipboard/zeroclipboard/issues/580

https://github.com/zeroclipboard/zeroclipboard/issues/171

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