On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen < hsteen@mozilla.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Johannes Wilm <johannes@fiduswriter.org> > wrote: > >> >> This is what happened here: Aryeh's draft was out there, then our >> version. The clipboard api people saw that and assumed it was a good idea >> to continue building on top of execCommand. >> > > Just for the record - the "clipboard people" (i.e. yours truly) simply > assumed that a spec documenting what several implementations do, cleaning > up the corner cases to make it easier to achieve compatibility would be a > useful thing to do - this has nothing to do with a spec being considered > more or less authoritative, I was just assuming that you were having > similar goals. So since I'm trying to build on and refine the legacy, > implemented stuff and you're trying to replace it we end up discovering > that we've made opposite assumptions and have mutually incompatible goals > for our specs. Such things happen :) > I see. At any rate, you asked us to change some things to execCommand, at which time I realized you probably hadn't followed the previous discussion on execCommand in this tf. Which you hadn't. That is of course understandable -- I don't have time to follow every discussion about clipboard either. But it showed me that we needed to communicate the current status of that discussion more clearly in a way that wasn't to be misunderstood. > > -Hallvord > > -- Johannes Wilm Fidus Writer http://www.fiduswriter.org
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