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Fun fact: Github uses Flash to copy link data or raw code to your clipboard.

Only because it is literally the only way to support the feature. Nothing sneaky about it.

Clipboard API and events. W3C Working Draft 09 December 2014

http://www.w3.org/TR/clipboard-apis/

That's awesome, I didn't know about this draft at all! Still wondering how such a native feature hasn't been drafted within the first 25 years of web browsers. Any (un)official ETA?

11% global support, so far.

http://caniuse.com/#feat=clipboard

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