Haven't seen this done before, but pardon me if it has. (I also didn't know the clipboard was accessible in Firefox, but perhaps they're using Flash.)
At least on my browser/config, the clipboard now has the text I copied, and a link to the story. Even better -- the link is to a version of the story with the text highlighted in it (using more JS + an anchor).
Pretty cool feature, although I could see some people being annoyed/surprised by it.
Interesting feature. I know there is a jQuery plugin that uses flash for copy/paste. Anyone can figure how it is done on this page? (They have a combination of traditional javascript and jQuery on the page).
That's nice but then again I would expect browser to take care of it. Opera and its notes are just about ideal. You get text, url and datetime. Plus it has a keyboard shortcut, they can organized in folders and searched
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Pretty cool feature, although I could see some people being annoyed/surprised by it.