Safari copy paste

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Safari copy paste

safari copy-cut-paste is not working as expected.

Use case: email service online, copy email text ( html/txt ) which has been added as attachment.

After issueing the copy command, the paste result is not what is expected in the mailer app (i have gmail and yahoo configured).

The paste result is a previous text which was copied from within safari.

To get to work i used goodreaders integrated webbrowser, here i am able to copy the text and paste accordingly.

Bottomline:

Safari needs a bugfix urgently, unworkable for me, unaccaptable that i need to use an alternative to be able to do basic functions.

Things i tried:

Reset

Reboot

Neither fixed the behaviour nor altered it.

Anyone have any other ideas?

Kind regards,

Fabian

iPad 2, iOS 5.0.1

Posted on Feb 16, 2012 11:49 AM

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Answer 1

Philly_Phan

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Feb 16, 2012 12:43 PM in response to fnchooft

I honestly don't understand your problem. Safari's C&P works fine for me. Please provide some detail regarding what you do and what happens.

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fnchooft Author

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Feb 16, 2012 1:26 PM in response to Philly_Phan

Hi Philly_Phan,

I just tried, i copied your text, pasted in this reply, no problem.

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I honestly don't understand your problem. Safari's C&P works fine for me. Please provide some detail regarding what you do and what happens.

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Now i return to my webmail which is based on squirrelmail, copy some header info for you, and paste again, and your text which was the previous copy command shows up.

In order to provide you with the header-info, i have to open goodreader, go to my webmail-site and copy the same info again.

See the pasted text:

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Subject: [Fwd: Vaga no Rrrrr - =?iso-8859-1?Q?divulga=E7=E3o]?=

From: xxxx@xxxx

To: xxxx@xxxx

User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.15

MIME-Version: 1.0

Content-Type: multipart/mixed;boundary="----=_20120216123306_78538"

X-Priority: 3 (Normal)

Importance: Normal

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So why is safari unable to do this? I am not the only one with this behavior as a quick google can show.

Any tips or tricks?

Kind regards,

Fabian

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Philly_Phan

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Feb 16, 2012 1:48 PM in response to fnchooft

I can't reproduce it because I don't have Squirrel-mail. Sorry but I can't help.

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fnchooft Author

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Feb 16, 2012 2:08 PM in response to fnchooft

http://www.ipadforums.net/ipad-os/49484-anyone-having-probs-copy-paste-ios-5-i-h ave-ipad-1-a.html also reports about some of these issues. Is this an isolated problem with ios 5?

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Answer 5

Feb 11, 2013 6:49 PM in response to fnchooft

Please reconsider the severity of this bug!
It may be related to something more fundamental in the Safari cut-n-paste functionality. It seems that Safari ALWAYS pastes an instance of the parent macro when copying content wrapped in a macro. The same behaviour is seen when copying and pasting text wrapped in the "Numbered headings" macro.

I believe the problem is mainly related to the cut and copy function rather than the paste function, since the instance of the parent element is also pasted when attempting to place the cut content outside the parent element. This effectively means that there is no way to move content out of a macro, since deleting the wrapper macro will also delete the contents.

All in all this makes Safari 5.1.x pretty much useless as a client to Confluence, since basic editing will have to involve pasting to and recutting from some external program to perform the most basic of editing operations. In a corporate environment users may not be allowed to install (or use) an alternative browser.

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