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I wish I could, frankly, but smartphone UIs are just not designed for it sadly. Heck, input boxes don't even autofocus on Android (presumably because a virtual keyboard pops up over half the screen for most people once they focus an input) so I need to jab the login field before I can start typing.

Whether or not Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V actually copy paste within any given application is about 50/50 (and not always the same between copy and paste!).

Since the big new version of Mobile Firefox it no longer scrolls when you send it scroll events (presumably there's a child frame or something).

Then again, Android is just generally not ready for production in a lot of ways other than keyboard support (the latter of which I sort of forgive them for -- phone keyboards are unfortunately quite rare these days).

So yes, we make an exception, but it's due to necessity not desirability.



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