Re: [clipboard-apis] Move script-created events out of "fire a clipboard event" (#16)

@johanneswilm, the important question isn't whether we deem `execCommand()` to be deprecated and hope for its eventual removal, but whether it can in fact ever be removed from browsers.

My assumption is that `execCommand()` cannot ever be removed, and thus that deprecation is meaningless. If it would help inform the discussion, I'd be happy to add telemetry to Blink to measure just high usage of `execCommand()` is. In the best of worlds, I'll be surprised and it really can be removed, but I wouldn't bet on it. If I'm right and usage is high, I would strongly advise against trying to design something new that doesn't define how it work together with `execCommand()`.

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