jquery - Paste image from clipboard to web form

Question

I see that this has been discussed a few times before, but that was 2010 and before. Now i was writing a new email in my gmail client and noted that i could just paste an image into the mail body / webform.

I was quite happy to see this as i have been looking for a similar solution for a while.

Can anyone provide some details on how this works? Is it Flash? Or some JavaScript?

Answer 1

It is html5 + javascript, and or flash (depends on the browser) This link should get you strated: http://strd6.com/2011/09/html5-javascript-pasting-image-data-in-chrome/

A little warning though, this only works in chrome as of now.