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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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rshupak
Iron Contributor
Oct 10, 2020

JaredB81 An issue with favorites and the new functionality.  This is with canary build 666.

 

When I right click on a favorite in the favorites bar and select Copy, it honors the link setting and will generate the following clipboard formats

 

C0C6 HTML Format
C0D2 UniformResourceLocatorW
000D Unicode Text
C31E chromium/x-bookmark-entries
0010 Locale
0001 Text
0007 OEM Text

 

When I right click on a favorite in edge://favorites or the new pinned favorites sidebar and click Copy link (note the different name and icon), it doesn't honor the setting and only generates the following formats.

 

000D Unicode Text
0010 Locale
0001 Text
0007 OEM Text
 
In canary 666, right clicking on the favorites menu, from the address bar icon, and selecting Copy link only generates the limited formats.  In dev build 658, which doesn't have the new favorites menu and pinned sidebar, right clicking offers Copy not Copy link and it generates the richer set of formats honoring the link format setting.

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JaredB81
Former Employee
Oct 15, 2020

rshupak thank you as always!  I was on vacation last week and am still catching up.

When I right-click on the address bar in Canary today (671), I see "Copy" not "Copy link" and the appropriate formats get added to the clipboard when copying. 

 

Can you confirm that you observe the expected behavior in Canary build 671 (or later if you see this post in the next few days)?

 

Thank you!

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    rshupak
    Iron Contributor
    Oct 15, 2020

    JaredB81 The address bar works in 672 for me.  Favorites are still broken but functionality and inconsistent UI.

     

    Favorite in favorite bar: Menu item named "Copy".  The following formats generated:

     

    C0C2 HTML Format
    C0CE UniformResourceLocatorW
    000D Unicode Text
    C2D5 chromium/x-bookmark-entries
    0010 Locale
    0001 Text
    0007 OEM Text
     
    Favorite in menu when clicking on a folder in the favorites bar.  Menu item named "Copy".  The following formats generated:
     
    C0C2 HTML Format
    C0CE UniformResourceLocatorW
    000D Unicode Text
    C2D5 chromium/x-bookmark-entries
    0010 Locale
    0001 Text
    0007 OEM Text
     
    Favorite in menu displayed when clicking favorites button in address bar.  Menu item named "Copy link".  The following formats generated:
     
    000D Unicode Text
    0010 Locale
    0001 Text
    0007 OEM Text
     
    Favorite in new favorites sidebar pinned from favorites button in address bar.  Menu item named "Copy link".  The following formats generated:
     
    000D Unicode Text
    0010 Locale
    0001 Text
    0007 OEM Text
     
    Favorite in edge://favorites/.  Menu item named "Copy link".  The following formats generated: 
     
    000D Unicode Text
    0010 Locale
    0001 Text
    0007 OEM Text
     
    There is an address bar bug I did not mention.  You can repro by visiting https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-edge-insider/ct-p/MicrosoftEdgeInsider.  This issue relates to the behavior when selecting a subset of the address bar content.  If the selection does not start at the left, only plain text is copied.  This is fine.  When you select from the left and the selection does not extend to the end of the host name, again, it is text only.  To repro the problem, copy exactly "https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/".  This will generate the following formats
     
    000D Unicode Text
    0010 Locale
    0001 Text
    0007 OEM Text
    C0C2 HTML Format
    C2C7 Link Preview Format
    C2B9 Titled Hyperlink Format
     
       The Link Preview Format content is the following, formatted for clarity
     
    {
    "description": "",
    "domain": "microsoft.com",
    "favicon_url": "https://c.s-microsoft.com/favicon.ico?v2",
    "image_url": "https://cdn.techcommunity.microsoft.com/lithium/TechCommunity-DefaultHero-2.png",
    "preferred_format": "text/html;content=titled-hyperlink",
    "title": "Home - Microsoft Tech Community",
    "type": "website",
    "url": "https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/"
    }
     
    The Titled Hyperlink Format content is the following which may be corrupted by this site.
     
    Version:0.9
    StartHTML:0000000105
    EndHTML:0000000259
    StartFragment:0000000141
    EndFragment:0000000223
    <html>
    <body>
    <!--StartFragment--><a href="https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/">Home - Microsoft Tech Community</a><!--EndFragment-->
    </body>
    </html>
     
    The problem is that the HTML Format content is a single byte of 0x00.  I must admit this surprises me since I have always seen HTML Format and Titled Hyperlink Format as identical.  If always so, why would generation of one work and the other not.  If not always identical, how do they differ?
     
    Rich

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