Re: Clipboard API: Default content in copy/cut handlers from Hallvord Steen on 2013-09-13 (public-webapps@w3.org from July to September 2013)

From: Hallvord Steen <hsteen@mozilla.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 01:49:22 -0700 (PDT)
To: Daniel Cheng <dcheng@google.com>
Cc: James Greene <james.m.greene@gmail.com>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
Message-ID: <1025575201.6101564.1379062162833.JavaMail.zimbra@mozilla.com>

> - Cancelling the event can result in one of two things:
>  - If event.clipboardData is empty, nothing happens. The system
> clipboard does not change. Here, the spec differs from how browsers
> behave so I've chosen to document how browsers behave. Neither Firefox
> nor Chrome let you clear the contents of the clipboard by calling
> event.clipboardData.clearData(). IMO, we should update the spec to
> reflect this.

I've reported https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23232 to make sure I don't forget this issue even though I'll mark your mail as read  now ;-)
-Hallvord

Received on Friday, 13 September 2013 08:49:53 UTC