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Of course Safari puts an NSURL on the

2022-11-07 18:25:02.741472+01 by Dan Lyke 2 comments

Of *course* Safari puts an NSURL on the pasteboard rather than an NSImage when you right click and "Copy Image". Why would it do the sensible thing that real browsers do?

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#Comment Re: Of course Safari puts an NSURL on the made: 2022-11-07 23:41:30.393514+01 by: markd

It's probably getting put there (looking via https://langui.net/clipboard-viewer/) - but as TIFF(because NeXT) stored under public.tiff.

#Comment Re: Of course Safari puts an NSURL on the made: 2022-11-09 18:56:49.851816+01 by: Dan Lyke

Turns out Firefox wasn’t putting an NSURL on the pasteboard, and the problem was that our “give us the pasteboard contents” call was putting NSURL ahead of NSImage.