Actually, it's a very popular site. The site is
www.tinyurl.com. Users
of this free service go there to convert very long URLs into more
memorable/emailable ones by receiving pointers from them. When the
pointer is created it is automatically copied to the clipboard as that
is the only logical thing a user is going to want to do with it.
Also, those of us using clipboard managers aren't too bothered if a new
entry is made as it doesn't wipe out the existing one.
To return to the topic I'm trying to create a script which opens
tinyurl.com and then takes the new clipboard item as the message body
of an email. The problem is that the only way I know to use the
clipboard contents is to use:
var p = window.clipboardData.getData('text');
then use 'p' as my clipboard contents. When I do so I only get the
clipboard data that was there at the start of the script and not that
which gets written halfway through.