Re: [w3c/clipboard-apis] User gesture requirement for Clipboard API access (#52)

For implementations that want to gate this API on a user gesture, then that feels too restrictive to me (since, as you note, it will prevent custom UI for the clipboard operations).

Note that the existing clipboard event API already allows you to override the clipboard operation to the clipboard (see https://w3c.github.io/clipboard-apis/#clipboard-event-api). If people can only access the Write API inside the "copy" event (and Read from within Paste), then that's effectively the same restriction as the current API. 

So that sounds like it might be OK, as long as there is still a way to request gesture-less access (which is needed for a number of other use cases)

However, note that Chrome's implementation does not rely on user gestures: Write access is always granted and Read access is protected by a User Permission.

Because of this, I think we should try to get feedback from UAs that intend to use the user gesture requirement to see how they feel about it.


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