On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Night Ranger <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 14, 3:03 pm, Vasanth Dharmaraj <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am trying to build an URL shortening extension in Chrome. >> >> Is it possible to copy the shortened URL to clipboard from an >> extension? > > Don't know... at the stage of development of extensions system I think > there's no clipboard management unless there is already in JavaScript > but why not write the shortened address on the document itself instead > of running the risk to delete from the clipboard data that could be > relevant for the user? > That's only my point, but I think you should consider that as you have > full access to the page content why don't use it? > You could simply append the shortened url on top of page or open a new > tab to display and even test the shortened url.
I think opening a new tab with the shortened URL makes sense to me. Perhaps in the future we can add APIs to add things to the clipboard more directly. - a --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
