How Does the Copy/Paste Function Work?
When the browser user clicks to copy a graphic or to copy the displayed text, it is not downloading from the server. Rather, it is copying from the browser computer. By the time that a browser user starts to “download” your work, a complete download has already been made! The browser requested a download from your server and stored it all on the browser computer. The copy/paste only takes some of this material from one spot on the browser computer and copies it to another. Why Is It Important to Understand That? People talk about downloading or copying from their site or their server. These are incorrect. This downloading happens when the page and graphics are requested by the browser. The fundamental architecture of the web is that your server sends to the browser a complete copy of the HTML and a complete copy of the graphics. When a person displays your page, all the HTML and every graphic has already been downloaded and stored on their computer. It is the way the web works. All the
