"copy to clipboard" box too tall

[slothbear]

This is a minor visual issue, but the fix may be easy. I'm running Chrome with the preferences setting:
Plug-ins: click to play

When I go to any gem page, the github_clippy.swf that supports "copy to clipboard" appears as a tall grey box. The gray box part is correct -- that's what I'm supposed to click to play. But the size of the box is 110x150, much larger than the 14x14 clipboard icon. It looks like this:

I see the same 100x150 box on the clippy for the "gem install" line at the top:

Would it be possible to add a height and width to these items so they don't overlap other stuff? Or... I noticed that Github uses a js-clippy for copying the repository address. Maybe Flash can be avoided altogether. Or... just close this issue, it is a minor nit.

[janko]

Well, Flash certainly can't be avoided, because you can't do copying to clipboard in Javascript. Why else would good programmers use Flash, besides when it's absolutely necessary? ;)

GitHub uses Javascript for copying the repository address? Are you sure? Because when I right click it, I see the "About Adobe Flash Player". You mean the https://github.com/USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git address, right?

Try to disable plug-ins, maybe one of them is messing it up. Because in my default Chrome it's normal.

[slothbear]

You are so right that the GitHub uses Flash to copy the repository URL to the clipboard. I came to the wrong conclusion when I found "js-clippy" in the HTML source, and I was able to use the button -- even though I don't have any "allow plug-ins" exceptions for github.com in Chrome. When I "block all" plug-ins, the copy button is disabled. I'll have to explore how the GitHub Flash making it past the Plug-in restriction settings. Thanks!

[mdespuits]

@slothbear Can this issue be closed?

[slothbear]

I realized adding an explicit height would fix most of the issue. Here is how the embed elements look with an explicit height of 32px, with and without plugins enabled in Chrome.

gem install section:

Gemfile section:

[cmeiklejohn]

It appears that this is resolved. Please reopen if it continues to be an issue.