Re: Fwd: Re: CfC: new WD of Clipboard API and Events; deadline April 5

On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 02:08:04 +0200, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote:

>> use a browser that doesn't support these events, or
>> a browser that lets you disable them (perhaps on a per-site basis), or a
>> browser that supports extensions that let you disable them.
>
> These aren't solutions that help average users.

What helps "average" users is IMO mostly a UI question ;-)

I'd predict that this will be handled much like popup windows. They became  
a nuisance for users, so UAs evolved to develop popup blocking, various  
types of UI for opt-in enabling et cetera. If clipboard event abuse  
becomes a severe enough problem, UAs will respond. Also, nothing stops UAs  
 from giving the user opt-in measures before enabling this functionality in  
the first place, and some UAs already have opt-in mechanisms when scripts  
want to use the OS clipboard that could or should be extended to also  
enable/disable clipboard events. Doing this in a user-friendly way is a  
fair playing field for UAs to compete on, and not something we should  
figure out now and put in the spec.


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Received on Wednesday, 7 September 2011 07:42:47 UTC