Re: Clipboard API spec should specify beforecopy, beforecut, and beforepaste events from Aryeh Gregor on 2012-05-02 (public-webapps@w3.org from April to June 2012)

From: Aryeh Gregor <ayg@aryeh.name>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 09:02:30 +0300
To: Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@webkit.org>
Cc: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, Scott González <scott.gonzalez@gmail.com>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAKA+AxmpM48-SZ-ypTFdrCvwmKjci3dQ5vfBjqFHL6VCrw6vXA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 3:56 AM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@webkit.org> wrote:
> That might make sense given how confusing these before* are.
>
> On the other hand, there are use cases to communicate enabledness of cut,
> copy, & paste with UA. Maybe we can address this use case by letting
> websites override
> queryCommandEnabled('cut'), queryCommandEnabled('copy'), queryCommandEnabled('paste')?
>
> Aryeh, any opinions here?

"enabled" is pretty useless, so I have no problem making it more
useful for specific commands.  But browsers don't generally support
the cut/copy/paste events in public web pages at all.  It would be
quite confusing for queryCommandEnabled("cut") to mean "can the *user*
perform a cut" rather than "will execCommand('cut') do anything".

Received on Wednesday, 2 May 2012 06:03:23 UTC