Re: Clipboard API: Enable `copy` event simulation with user's express permission (domain-wide)?

*Correction:*
leaving it up to the browser vendors WITHOUT an agreed upon standard (or at
least "marching direction") means zero progress.


Sincerely,
    James Greene



On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:11 PM, James Greene <james.m.greene@gmail.com>wrote:

> Ryosuke & Anne —
> Agreed with Anne, leaving it up to the browser vendors an agreed upon
> standard (or at least "marching direction") means zero progress.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>     James Greene
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>wrote:
>
>> On Jul 12, 2013, at 12:57 PM, James Greene <james.m.greene@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > It appears that the only way to trigger a `copy` event programmatically
>> is
>> > to use `document.execCommand('copy')`, which most browsers prevent:
>> >
>> >
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/clipboard-apis/#integration-with-other-scripts-and-events
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@apple.com> wrote:
>> > I don't want the clipboard API specification to mandate one behavior or
>> > another.  It's something each browser vendor should be able to decide.
>>
>> That's the situation we are in now and it sucks for developers. We
>> should be able to do better.
>>
>>
>> --
>> http://annevankesteren.nl/
>>
>
>

Received on Thursday, 25 July 2013 01:18:45 UTC