Hi David.  I like the idea of being able to copy off the data relatively
quickly.  And I like the idea of the scissors only showing up when you
hover over them.  However I think some control of them needs to happen. 
It gets a little crazy when you leave your mouse in the center of the
screen and use the scroll wheel to move down the page and all the items
get a pair of scissors over them.  Or if your just moving the mouse
around and all these scissors pop up.

Perhaps a "copy all" or scissor button like in 1.0 that pops up a facet
that has two columns.  One with the various formats to copy to and the
other column lists the different ways you can copy info.

<div ex:role="copy" ex:expression=".a, .b, .c, all" ex:facetLabel="Copy All (or 
"copy-icon")"></div>

So we've got a widget for copying information.  ex:expression tells the
copy by what it can copy by, and facetLabel is saying you can either add
text or if you use this super fancy secret code phrase than the scissors
icon will be used.  This way users don't necessarily have to have their
exhibit copied if they don't want it to to be copied.

Cheers,
Derek

Derek Kinsman
The Idea Company

New Media Designer

http://www.ideacompany.ca/
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David Huynh wrote:
> Hi Derek,
>
> I didn't realize that the scissors could get annoying. I'll add a way to 
> turn them off very soon. Sorry about that.
>
> I'd like a way for someone who visits an exhibit to be able to copy off 
> the data, but at the same time I would like the author of the exhibit 
> not to feel that his design is being intruded upon. Any suggestion?
>
> David
>
> derek | idea company wrote:
>   
>> Hi David,
>> I've poked around through the mailing list archives and didn't see
>> anything, so I do apologize if this has been brought up before.  Is
>> there a way to turn off the scissors?  and just not have them there. 
>> something like ex:copy="false".  Thanks.
>>
>> Derek.
>>
>> Derek Kinsman
>> The Idea Company
>>
>> New Media Designer
>>
>> http://www.ideacompany.ca/
>> http://boring.ambitiouslemon.com/
>> http://nincompoopery.ambitiouslemon.com/
>>
>> 1 416 371 5652
>>
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