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

teej · on Jan 28, 2015

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

zaroth · on Jan 28, 2015

Clipboard API and events. W3C Working Draft 09 December 2014

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

alexcasalboni · on Jan 30, 2015

11% global support, so far.

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

alexcasalboni · on Jan 28, 2015

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?