- From: Hallvord R. M. Steen <hsteen@mozilla.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 18:59:32 -0800 (PST)
- To: Joshua Peek <josh@joshpeek.com>
- Cc: public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
> I'm eager to replace our flash clipboard bridge with this native api.
Uh, I'm glad you like it but I wouldn't hold my breath.. I hope implementors will like it too but I have no way to tell when implementations will actually be available.
> Would this be the correct code to write a string to the clipboard on a
> button click?
Almost, just create a "copy" event rather than a "paste" one ;-)
> document.getElementById("copytoclipboard").addEventListener("click",
> function() {
> var event = new ClipboardEvent('paste', {data: 'COPIED!',
This is where 'paste' ought to be 'copy'. Then it should just work.
> dataType: 'text/plain'});
> document.dispatchEvent(event);
> });
-Hallvord
Received on Tuesday, 21 January 2014 02:59:59 UTC