🎙️ Welcome to Open Matters, the podcast on open-source matters - because openness matters!
Think copy and paste is simple? Think again.
In this episode of Open Matters, we're joined by Miklos Vajna—open-source veteran and Collabora Online engineer—to uncover the messy, fascinating world of clipboard behaviour in and out of browsers. From browser quirks to surprising security concerns, and why pasting from Google Sheets used to break your spreadsheets, we dive into what it takes to make Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V just work.
If you’ve ever copied a password, a table, or an emoji—this episode is for you.
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02:27 Evolution of copy and paste
03:32 Offline vs. online security?
04:25 What are the dangers?
06:00 How do we differentiate good guys vs. bad guys?
07:38 What about different formatting standards?
12:01 Intelligent copy and paste operations
13:14 Are all browsers the same?
14:02 Areas for improvement?