Zeroclickinfo-goodies: Calculator: Add ability to paste values into calculator

[jonathancross]

Would be great if we could paste (Ctrl-v) into the calculator.

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IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/calculator
Maintainer: @pjhampton

[pjhampton]

Yeah, I like that idea. Will implement next week! 👍

[pjhampton]

Assigning @souravbadami based on slack convo 👍

[pjhampton]

@souravbadami are you still working on this?

[pjhampton]

Ok, I looked into this. The issue with implementing this suggested feature is because:

1. We don't us an HTML <input /> field, we use a span. So we can't rely on the user's computer, and:
2. Using JS to grab from the users keyboard isn't going to work cross browser, so we can't give the users a consistent experience. See this Stack Overflow answer.
3. Not everyone uses ctl, some use cmd which we can't capture.

So this is a user/browser support issue.
Never say never, but not for now 👍 sorry to disappoint @jonathancross.

[jonathancross]

Yeah, I suppose it would have to be a paste button unless you are interested in switching to an <input> element.