Re: [clipboard-apis] The ClipboardEvent constructor is strange (#10)

> What you're missing is some line somewhere saying that if dispatchEvent() is called with an event object whose constructor is ClipboardEvent, the implementation should run the "fire a clipboard event" steps?

That would amount to monkey patching of DOM's [dispatch](https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-event-dispatch), and I don't think any other spec adds special steps to run as part of that algorithm, at least in Blink's implementation I see nothing like it. CC @annevk

I can see two solutions:
 1. Add a `DataTransfer` constructor and make `ClipboardEventInit` like [`DragEventInit`](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-dragevent-interface).
 2. Let `ClipboardEventInit` and `DragEventInit` have no dictionary members at all, and make the constructors create events with a `DataTransfer` instance with nothing in it. It looks like `DataTransferItemList.add()` can be used to populate it.

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