[w3c/clipboard-apis] Clarifying `clipboard.readText()` behaviour (Issue #236)

Gae24 created an issue (w3c/clipboard-apis#236)

I found the steps involved in creating a representation to be a bit unclear.

> 3. Let representation be a new [representation](https://w3c.github.io/clipboard-apis/#representation).
> 4. If representation’s [MIME type](https://w3c.github.io/clipboard-apis/#representation-mime-type) [essence](https://mimesniff.spec.whatwg.org/#mime-type-essence) is "text/plain", then:

How can it be "text/plain"? Shouldn't we check the essence of `mimeType`, which is:

> 1. Let mimeType be the result of running the [well-known mime type from os specific format](https://w3c.github.io/clipboard-apis/#well-known-mime-type-from-os-specific-format) algorithm given systemClipboardRepresentation’s [name](https://w3c.github.io/clipboard-apis/#system-clipboard-representation-name).

Lastly what should we actually do with data from clipboard? Spec is not clear about it, currently Servo implementation resolve representation's [data](https://w3c.github.io/clipboard-apis/#representation-data) with it.

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