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Same here. I was using OReilly Safari the other day, which also hosts PDFs like Scribd. I kept cutting and pasting sample code from I book I'd purchased, then wondering why the code had ransom spaces inserted into it that kept breaking things.

And then I remembered: Safari is Flash, Scribd is HTML. This is why Safari cut and paste doesn't work.

Scribd dudes: please talk to OReilly.

Safari Books Online can use either HTML or Flash. I'm writing this from my iPad and I have SBO open in the next tab.

Thanks, I didn't know that! Would be a better default.

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