Re: Clipboard API: Enable `copy` event simulation with user's express permission (domain-wide)?

On Jul 12, 2013, at 12:57 PM, James Greene <james.m.greene@gmail.com> wrote:
> It appears that the only way to trigger a `copy` event programmatically is
> to use `document.execCommand('copy')`, which most browsers prevent:
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/clipboard-apis/#integration-with-other-scripts-and-events

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@apple.com> wrote:
> I don't want the clipboard API specification to mandate one behavior or
> another.  It's something each browser vendor should be able to decide.

That's the situation we are in now and it sucks for developers. We
should be able to do better.


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Received on Thursday, 25 July 2013 00:33:12 UTC