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[Aaron Wells <1513665@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

On the Secret URLs page, we added the zeroclipboard library to allow
users to click a clipboard icon and have the URL copied to their
clipboard. Unfortunately, since then Flash has started dying in a bad
way, and now this sort of Flash-based clipboard widget is on the way
out, and can cause browsers to pop up warning messages and such.

Now, there is no way to accomplish exactly this same functionality (copy
to clipboard) without Flash currently. But, there are some useable
alternatives. The one that seems to be poised to replace the click-to-
copy pattern, is that you click and it automatically selects the full
text, so that you then just have to hit "control-C" instead of first
dragging to select it all.

Jen recently added this little clipboard library to the styleguide.php
script. It works pretty good, so we may as well adopt it for the Secret
URL screen as well.

http://zenorocha.github.io/clipboard.js/

** Affects: mahara
     Importance: Low
     Assignee: Aaron Wells (u-aaronw)
         Status: Confirmed


** Tags: flash snack-sized usability

** Changed in: mahara
    Milestone: None => 16.04.0

** Changed in: mahara
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Aaron Wells (u-aaronw)

** Changed in: mahara
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: mahara
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Tags added: flash snack-sized usability

** Changed in: mahara
   Importance: Medium => Low

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1513665

Title:
  Replace zeroclipboard with a non-flash alternative

Status in Mahara:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  On the Secret URLs page, we added the zeroclipboard library to allow
  users to click a clipboard icon and have the URL copied to their
  clipboard. Unfortunately, since then Flash has started dying in a bad
  way, and now this sort of Flash-based clipboard widget is on the way
  out, and can cause browsers to pop up warning messages and such.

  Now, there is no way to accomplish exactly this same functionality
  (copy to clipboard) without Flash currently. But, there are some
  useable alternatives. The one that seems to be poised to replace the
  click-to-copy pattern, is that you click and it automatically selects
  the full text, so that you then just have to hit "control-C" instead
  of first dragging to select it all.

  Jen recently added this little clipboard library to the styleguide.php
  script. It works pretty good, so we may as well adopt it for the
  Secret URL screen as well.

  http://zenorocha.github.io/clipboard.js/

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