Re: [editing] What do we need to integrate with the clipboard api? (#64)

> I am not sure what considerations went into that, but this is how I interpret this passage:
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> > Scripts can not trigger paste actions, not even from user-initiated threads (though the spec leaves the door open to implementing specific permission UIs that will allow this on a per-site basis).
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> http://www.whatcouldbewrong.com/articles/html5-clipboard-support/

Thanks for the link. You can ignore my previous comment because I incorrectly remembered that Chrome and FF will/do support user-initiated paste, while they only support paste and cut. Hallvord's post makes it super clear.

I was wondering though, if the spec leaves the door open for user-initiated paste, what if I change browser's settings to allow clipboard access (if any implements this). Hypothetically, the `paste` command would work then in `contentEditable=true` but what would happen in `contentEditable=events`? AFAICS we don't need to spec it at all, because the `paste` event will be fired on the document, so it's the same case as with `copy`. It means that whatever happens `cE=events` should be safe (as @hallvors wrote).

> Yeah, that true since if it doesn't do anything to the editing host by default.

Agree.

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