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fix(ui): fall back to legacy copy in insecure browser contexts - #1174
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navigator.clipboard only exists in secure contexts. Remote mode serves plain HTTP on a non-localhost host, so every bare navigator.clipboard.writeText call threw TypeError and copy buttons silently broke. Add copyTextToClipboard(text): Promise<boolean> to packages/ui/utils/clipboard.ts: it tries the async Clipboard API (guarded against synchronous throws), falls back to the existing copy-event plus execCommand path, reports success as a boolean, and never throws. copyTextWithFallback now returns whether the copy happened and accepts an optional focusOwner; copyTextPreservingFocus keeps its exported signature and behavior unchanged. Route all bare call sites through the helper, preserving each site's UX: Copied states only flip on success, error toasts and console errors remain for the failure case, fire-and-forget sites stay fire-and-forget. GoalSetupSurface gains the fallback and keeps its error surface for the all-strategies-failed case. Add DOM-gated unit tests for the helper and register them in CI. Closes #1173
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Review follow-ups for the insecure-context clipboard fallback: 1. Tag the fallback textarea with data-clipboard-fallback and whitelist it in PopoutDialog's ANNOTATION_SELECTORS so the transient focus shift during a fallback copy no longer closes popout dialogs (TablePopout copy buttons, CodeFilePopout copy contents). 2. Widen AnnotationPanel's onQuickCopy prop to Promise<void | boolean>. A false resolution now suppresses the Copied flash; void resolution stays success so existing hosts keep today's behavior. The editor quick-copy site returns the helper's boolean. 3. In copyTextWithFallback, only flag the copy-event path as success when clipboardData was present and setData actually ran, and only when execCommand also reported success. A null clipboardData no longer calls preventDefault, so the textarea retry still runs. 4. Add tests pinning that the fallback runs synchronously when navigator.clipboard is absent (execCommand fires before the call returns, keeping it inside the user-gesture window), that a copy event without clipboardData is not treated as success, and that the fallback textarea carries the PopoutDialog focus-out marker and is removed after the copy resolves. 5. GoalSetupSurface surfaces the real writeText rejection message when the Clipboard API exists but fails and the fallback also fails; the generic unavailable message is reserved for the API-absent case.
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Closes #1173
Bug: navigator.clipboard only exists in secure browser contexts. Remote-mode Plannotator serves plain HTTP on a non-localhost host, so navigator.clipboard is undefined there and every bare navigator.clipboard.writeText(...) call threw TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'writeText'). Reported from annotate mode on 0.25.1; it affected every copy button. Remote-mode HTTP is the main affected environment.
Fix: New copyTextToClipboard(text): Promise in packages/ui/utils/clipboard.ts. It tries the async Clipboard API (guarded against synchronous throws), falls back to the existing copy-event / execCommand path, returns whether the copy actually happened, and never throws. All 27 bare call sites across packages/ui, packages/editor, and packages/review-editor now go through it, preserving each site's UX (Copied states only on success, existing error toasts and console errors on failure, fire-and-forget sites stay fire-and-forget). GoalSetupSurface gains the fallback and keeps its error message for the all-strategies-failed case. copyTextPreservingFocus keeps its exported signature and behavior unchanged.
Tests: DOM-gated unit tests (packages/ui/utils/clipboard.test.ts, registered in .github/workflows/test.yml) cover: Clipboard API absent (falls back, returns the execCommand result), writeText rejecting, writeText throwing synchronously, writeText resolving (no fallback invoked), everything failing (resolves false, never throws), and the fallback copy event carrying the text payload. Typecheck, full bun test, and the CI DOM test set all pass.