Re: Clipboard API spec should specify beforecopy, beforecut, and beforepaste events from Boris Zbarsky on 2012-05-01 (public-webapps@w3.org from April to June 2012)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 19:57:03 -0400
To: Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@webkit.org>
CC: Scott González <scott.gonzalez@gmail.com>, public-webapps@w3.org
Message-ID: <4FA0784F.5080702@mit.edu>

On 5/1/12 7:51 PM, Ryosuke Niwa wrote:
> I agree that these events are broken and has very different semantics
> from other before* events. I would be fine with adding non-normative
> section describing the current behavior as well (or even mark them as
> deprecated). I just feel that it needs to be documented in some spec so
> that authors don't accidentally find them on their own and start
> mis-using them.

I have no problem with an authoring note along those lines.  Heck, I 
have no problem with an explicit author conformance requirement to not 
use these events.  ;)

-Boris

Received on Tuesday, 1 May 2012 23:57:33 UTC