Re: [clipboard-apis] Non Recognizable formats (#9)

I just realized the DataTransfer object is kind of broken as currently specified. It works for text/plain and text/html but most formats are binary and the DataTransfer API assumes everything is a string. This is easy to fix by allowing typed arrays as data similar to XHRs but isn't currently something I see in the spec anywhere. Chrome has hacked around this by adding an "items" field which I assume is non-standard but other browsers don't have any way to do this.

More context and discussion: https://crbug.com/487266 (Chrome doesn't expose all of the formats on the clipboard)

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