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I'm increasingly finding that "Copy to clipboard" is an essential feature in things that I build, mainly because select all then copy and paste on mobile phones is still pretty inconvenient

Like 14 October at 17:03 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net

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@simon I have a maxim that “when a human is copying and pasting data between two applications something is wrong”. Copy to clipboard (and indeed being able to copy text and data out of apps that are not web pages is an essential capability.)

14 October at 17:28 | Open on apricot.social

@simon Thank you.

14 October at 17:36 | Open on dragonscave.space

Made some improvements https://gist.github.com/simonw/e56d55e6a87a547faac7070eb912b32d

</script>
</body> </html>
Modify this:
• the textarea and html preview should not be shown until the API call finishes
• the input should be in a form with a submit event to hitting enter activates it
• a "Loading..." indicator should show while the APl is running
• the HTML preview should be shown in an iframe with a sandbox attribute
• that iframe should start with a snippet of
CSS to set max width on images to 100%
I understand. I'll modify the HTML and JavaScript to implement these changes. Here's the updated version:
• Modified Jina Reader Webpage

14 October at 18:09 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net

@simon neat, TIL https://r.jina.ai/https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/14/my-jina-reader-tool/

14 October at 18:55 | Open on mastodon.social

@simon I have leaned on "copy to clipboard" apps/pages in everything from DjangoCon US to my dozen or so Django side projects.

I often need markdown from a data source that I want to paste into a newsletter, YouTube description, or someplace else.

I can normally write these in single-digit minutes vs. spending 15 to 30 minutes on a less flexible API call.

14 October at 18:58 | Open on mastodon.social