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Pasting text shows "Allow access" security popup twice in a row

post #1 of 7
10/5/09 at 11:23am
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When I try to paste something into the reply box from the clipboard I get the "Do you want allow this webpage to access your clipboard?" twice. Now I perfectly understand why box comes up in the first place, but when I click on "Allow Access" it comes up a second time. Why is that? Clicking on "Allow Access" then proceeds to paste the text as appropriate.

I'm using IE8.

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post #2 of 7
10/5/09 at 11:37am
Bill:  I know there was an incident last week in which a member cut some text from one site and pasted it into a reply box here (something that he had already posted himself on another forum)...only to have it cause some crazy formatting issues on the HTF in the context of his post. 

Apparently the copy/paste maneuver brought along with it a bunch of coding baggage from the other site.

Maybe that's got something to do with your question?  Or, maybe not.  I've never seen anything like what you're describing.  And I copy/paste all the time. 
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post #3 of 7
10/5/09 at 12:53pm
That may be a Firefox thing, Mike. I've seen what Bill's describing from day 1 in IE, both 7 and 8. And the incident you're referring to (with RobertR's cut-and-paste) is something separate -- at least, I'm pretty sure it is. It results from the fact that this editor is willing to accept so many different kinds of input, including a wide variety of graphics and codes that can get picked up inadvertently when someone copies and pastes from another site.

I keep meaning to ask someone from Huddler why the two confirmations, but something else always distracts me. So it's good that Bill's asking.
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post #4 of 7
10/5/09 at 1:03pm
Glad I'm not using IE then.  That would drive me buggy (to get asked once, let alone twice). 
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post #5 of 7
10/6/09 at 11:20am
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Yeah, it doesn't matter what you are pasting. Simple text would do it. I can't recall it doing it since Day 1, but it's possible. I don't use paste all that often. And certainly not often enough to get me to switch to FireFox. Yet, it is still annoying.

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post #6 of 7
10/6/09 at 11:36am
I do an enormous amount of pasting, because all my reviews are written off-line and then pasted twice: once into a thread and once into the product database.

I've learned a few unexpected things about the online editor as a result. For example, if the text you're pasting has been copied from Word, it will stop you after the first prompt and ask you to confirm that it's Word text. If you answer "yes", it will offer to clean up extraneous codes. Answer "yes" (which you should always do), and you're into an input box that otherwise wouldn't come up.

So this may turn out not to be a bug but rather separate stages of checking the material that's being input. I just don't know. I do know that the editor's ability to strip excess coding out of Word was the key to my solving the formatting problems with my reviews.
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post #7 of 7
10/6/09 at 12:13pm
It was explained to me a few months ago (very shortly after we switched platforms).

It's a Windows feature they cannot control. There's a setting on your PC you can change to get it away (if I remember well), but apparently I chose not to do it, so it may involve other security aspects, or else it's a procedure that has to be repeated all the time. I only remember I didn't do it.

(BTW, I always have to click thrice, twice on the OK of the second box.)


Cees
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