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[Aaron Wells <1513665@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Okay, it turns out the current version of clipboard.js does not suit our
needs on iOS. In Safari on iOS it doesn't select the text, but rather it
just moves the cursor into the text field where the text is (assuming
that it's an editable text field like an input or textarea).

It seems like the developer may currently be working on this. Or at
least, he's working on another, separate project that enables
javascript-based text selection in iOS. Presumably he may link that back
in to the original project once it's ready:
https://github.com/zenorocha/clipboard.js/issues/26

In the meantime, ZeroClipboard is apparently actively working on an
HTML5 functionality:
https://github.com/zeroclipboard/zeroclipboard/issues/171

Once that gets implemented, it will probably be the better choice,
because it still has better cross-browser fallback behavior (it knows to
hide itself when it's not going to work), and it has a larger community
maintaining it. So I think for now, we should probably wait and see if
ZeroClipboard gets an HTML5 version out in the next couple of months.

** Summary changed:

- Replace zeroclipboard with a non-flash alternative
+ Get an HTML5 "click-to-copy" widget

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

Title:
  Get an HTML5 "click-to-copy" widget

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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