- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 19:31:01 +0000 (UTC)
- To: "Hallvord R. M. Steen" <hallvord@opera.com>
- cc: public-webapps@w3.org
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Hallvord R. M. Steen wrote: > > I've done some work on a spec for clipboard events, initially just to > make up my mind about what Opera needs to implement, but as it might be > a useful thing in general I've volunteered to edit it as a WebApps WG > delivery. It will be a fairly small spec, only handling clipboard > events. Is it intended to also cover cut, copy and paste? The current spec draft seems very vague about when the events fire and what their default actions are, but I can't tell if that's intentional or not. > Now, this needs a bit of syncing with HTML5 because right now that spec > defines a ClipboardEvent interface that contains some of the stuff in > HTML5's DataTransfer interface. To avoid this overlap I guess there are > two ways forward, either I remove those bits from the clipboard events > spec and reference HTML5, or you remove them from HTML5 and say that > DataTransfer extends ClipboardEvent. I'm happy either way (though if I'm > going to reference DataTransfer I'll call out explicitly what methods > are required for clipboard events and omit the DnD specific stuff). > Which approach do you think would be better? What do browsers do? Do they use the same object, including the drag-and-drop specific attributes, or is it a different interface? > Another issue I'd like a comment on is whether you have spec'ed or are > close to spec'ing something that helps with the > paste-text-with-binary-blobs-in use cases. I don't yet know how we > should do that yet. Editing as a whole is rather under-defined right now. I don't have plans to work on it in the comming weeks. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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