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MissyQ
Former Employee
Aug 19, 2020

Announcing a new way to paste URLs, Link format!

Recently, we wanted to dig into how users feel about copying and pasting a URL from their browser. We looked to understand what they do when they copy and paste URLs, as well as the pain points they ...
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rjpaulsen
Brass Contributor
Sep 29, 2020
I was part of a call where you asked for input on sharing content. I suggested using Open Graph meta data (which is what Facebook and Twitter use for when you share a link). I hope this is what's coming.
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rshupak
Iron Contributor
Sep 29, 2020

rjpaulsen Is it common for the title element and the og:title property to differ?

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    rjpaulsen
    Brass Contributor
    Sep 29, 2020
    It's more important to additionally grab description and image and whatever else the og is offering.
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      rshupak
      Iron Contributor
      Sep 29, 2020

      rjpaulsen Currently they only share text and title so the rest do not matter.  What you describe is useful in other contexts but I believe it would break the scenario for which this currently applies.  Before this change, if you copied from the address bar or link on a page and pasted it into a rich text document (e.g. HTML email, Word), the URL only would be pasted as text.  Now Edge adds HTML to the clipboard as well which is selected in priority to plain text when pasting.  In these scenarios the same hyperlink is pasted but the displayed text changes from the page URL to the page title.  The last thing I want is to see the graphic and description that you see when you use the share charm which does use the OG properties.

       

      Is this the behavior that you want when copying and pasting links?

       

      Now, I would like to see this full info when using the following which wasn't even updated to support the additional functionality of copying from the address bar.

       

      OK, Edge Canary and/or this site is broken and I can't paste a screen clipping of the share UI which as a "Copy Link" feature which is limited in functionality.  It looks like I may have been successful in attaching it.

       

      Rich

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        JaredB81
        Former Employee
        Sep 29, 2020
        Thanks, Rich. Good suggestion around the Share UI and accruing the benefits of the Link Format to Share as well. We've discussed that as well and it's good to know that you are interested in that.

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