Simply stated, I?d like to extend the clipboard user model to the web.
A few weeks ago, I approached my brother Jack ? who leads a Concept Development team in my group at Microsoft ? and visually sketched out and storyboarded some end-to-end user scenarios that I wanted to try to accomplish. The scenarios were all centered on this new clipboard user model.
The team took me up on the challenge, and in a few short weeks had accomplished all of the scenarios, and more. And they did it using techniques that are incredibly simple, and which work securely and are browser independent.
Today at O?Reilly?s Emerging Technology Conference, I?m sharing this new concept ? through a brief demo and through hallway discussion.
I call this new concept Live Clipboard, because we view ?live? efforts as those providing users with seamless end-to-end scenarios that ?just work? by weaving together the best of software and the best of services.
The Concept Development team has created a screencast of a Live Clipboard demo, and a simple web page-based demo that you can play with. Hopefully this will convey more vividly some of what I?ve attempted to explain above.
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