Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by lucideer 1377 days ago
True. This can be tricky but generally:

- the copy-replace trick is harder to do if you use native copy (keyboard or mouse menu) & avoid "Copy" icons pages provide

- if it's such a long snippet that's too long to re-verify at a glance, maybe it's too long...
1 comments
kadoban 1377 days ago
> the copy-replace trick is harder to do if you use native copy (keyboard or mouse menu) & avoid "Copy" icons pages provide

Pretty sure that's not true. CSS allows you to choose both what's visible to the user, and also what's included in copy/paste. There's _some_ limitations on that, but it's flexible enough to have a lot of room to be extremely scary.

You can also have a lot of fun with fonts, something that looks like "cp a b" could actually, in text, be "rm a b"

link
lucideer 1377 days ago
> Pretty sure that's not true.

> harder to do

You can do it via CSS trickery, or you can even do keyboard/mouse event detection and swap out via window.getSelection(), but both are much more involved & less reliable than via a button.

link
kadoban 1377 days ago
My point was that it's still not very hard. Certainly not hard enough that you can avoid worrying about it if you just turn JS off.
link