10.5: Smart copy/paste from Safari to Mail

Nov 20, '07 02:30:00PM

Contributed by: Anonymous

It seems that OS X 10.5 has some really smart copy/paste going on between Safari and Mail. Today I copied the track listing from an album page in Amazon which had a ton of code around it to download the tracks, play previews etc...

When I pasted it in to mail, I expected to just get the text, which I would need to strip stuff out to look readable. Much to my surprise, the whole table from the web page pasted in with full functionality in Mail, and even gave me a Dashboard-like X in a circle in the upper left corner of the paste area to make it easy for me to delete.

When my brother received my message, he was able to preview the tracks in the preview pane of the message. He also informed me that some "" Flash code that was pasted into a message he received actually displayed the remote flash application -- I still need to look into that...

[robg adds: I tested this with youtube.com; I just drag-selected a region of the page that contained a video clip, pasted it into a new Mail message, and sent it to one of my other accounts. The end result? A perfectly formatted, embedded Flash email message -- even in 10.4. I could not make this work when sending from 10.4, though, even using Safari 3.]

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