Handle paste event on the web interface to allow pasting files directly into the browser #54

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minnozz · 2020-05-15T12:00:59+02:00

minnozz commented

2020-05-15 12:00:59 +02:00

As suggested by Thom.

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/paste_event

How should this interact with pasting a link or text into one of the form fields?

As suggested by Thom. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/paste_event How should this interact with pasting a link or text into one of the form fields?

electricdusk added the

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label 2020-05-15 12:09:25 +02:00

electricdusk commented

2020-05-15 12:13:58 +02:00

I think the most beautiful support would be to allow pasting, and depending on the paste content, emit some kind of in-browser view of what was pasted. Then the user can submit that, or maybe even edit that before submitting.

For example:

When somebody pastes an image, show the image and a submit option.
When somebody pastes plain text, spawn a <textarea> with the pasted text as innerText. (And a submit button.)
Otherwise, show something like binary file of 42kB.

I think the most beautiful support would be to allow pasting, and depending on the paste content, emit some kind of in-browser view of what was pasted. Then the user can submit that, or maybe even edit that before submitting. For example: - When somebody pastes an image, show the image and a submit option. - When somebody pastes plain text, spawn a `<textarea>` with the pasted text as `innerText`. (And a submit button.) - Otherwise, show something like `binary file of 42kB`.

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