Re: typing of drag/drop objects in clipboard

Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
> There is a lot of architecture in the clipboard.
> I think it is important that the WebAPI clipboard is very web 
> architecture compatible.
Definitely agreed. Charles has set that a full-fledged-clipboard 
specification was thought as version 2, trying to get version 1 as soon 
as possible out with (almost?) IE and Safari compatibility. I'm afraid 
that this means the clipboard is limited in content-types (URL, text, I 
fear).
> Desktop clipboards, like HTTP, have concepts of type negotiation.
Definitely!
> It would be logical to make the clipboard type in WebAPI carry 
> content-type
> [and later negotiate it].
I always thought the clipboardData to be a map associating mime-types to 
data... extending this is not an issue I believe.

I wonder, however if the copy-and-paste or drag-and-drop negotiation 
wouldn't take advantage of being more HTTP-like. E.g., the current 
architectures I know do not say anything about the recipient and 
provider application names... whereas this is a classical http header.

paul
>> Setting and getting the data to be transferred
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>> Internet Explorer provides 3 methods for the clipboardData and 
>> dataTransfer objects:
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>> setData()
>> This takes one or two parameters. The first must be set to either 
>> 'text' or 'URL' (case-insensitive).
>> getData()
>> This takes one parameter, that allows the target to request a 
>> specific type of data.
>> clearData()
>> This clears the data from the object.
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