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by FuzzyDunlop 4788 days ago
Possibly tangential, but you can copy and paste and get different results based on context (eg. copy image file, paste into HTML doc, get image tag; paste into terminal, get path; paste into mail client, get attachment; paste into image editor, get the image itself). It definitely works in OSX, but IIRC it's supported in Windows too.

I last tried this around 18 months ago, in a Firefox extension. Was a bit fiddly but I could do what I wanted.
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frenchy 4788 days ago
It works on virtually all desktop systems (Linux, OSX, Windows) and has for a good long time, it's just a matter of whether or not the application has implemented support for it.

You're more limited in what you can do in a web application though.

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