Re: [w3c/clipboard-apis] Clipboard Permission (#51)

@jyasskin:
Waiting until the next gesture means:

(1) We'll be reading from the clipboard on unrelated user input events. This is a violation of the assumption that the gesture is related to the user granting clipboard access. Cf., if a site had a generic "Welcome to our site" dialog with an "OK" button and it read from the clipboard as part of the OK click handler -- that sounds like abuse to me. We shouldn't be encouraging that.

(2) Any UI on the remote machine that adapts to the clipboard contents (e.g., cut/copy/paste buttons in a formatting bar) will be incorrect until the user clicks somewhere.

(3) If the first click maps to a clipboard paste button on the remote machine, then the clipboard contents will not have a chance to be copied over before the remote copy action happens.

I created a document that gives more details:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BknrnJqxkix01Yo6Xn9KIIN4tw1YmTjPEOKB43YZorA/edit?usp=sharing

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