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

Just to pitch in in support of Johannes -- it's true execCommand etc. will probably never be removable, but the cost-benefit ratio of making it interoperable is extremely unfavorable.  The status quo is all browsers have some sort of implementation that makes the web work, and implementations are extremely complex and fragile and regression-prone.  Breaking existing sites is very easy, and existing sites are happy enough with the current complete lack of interop, and few new sites want to use it (they mostly prefer JS libraries).  So I don't think browsers are likely to bother converging in the foreseeable future, and there's no need for a spec.  Which is why I dropped the spec -- no one wanted to implement it.

That said, I don't think "deprecated" is the right word to use, because it suggests it will eventually be removed, which is optimistic.  I would rather say that the feature is not standardized and there are no plans to standardize it, and authors are encouraged to use libraries based on standardized features instead.

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