Re: [clipboard events] click-to-copy support could be hasFeature discoverable? from Anne van Kesteren on 2014-05-20 (public-webapps@w3.org from April to June 2014)

From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 12:16:32 +0200
To: "Hallvord R. M. Steen" <hsteen@mozilla.com>
Cc: public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CADnb78jw0BkmXNiMyATMQRxA9DtrG-W9x2_BJhWsCQWm3WZunQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Hallvord R. M. Steen
<hsteen@mozilla.com> wrote:
> However, if a scripted copy event can't take a payload and have it placed on the clipboard, what's the point of making script-generated copy events possible in the first place? If there's no point I'd rather disallow them.

I don't follow. document.execCommand() is performing an *action*.
Dispatching an event is not an action. It can be part of one, to
notify observers, but it's not the actual thing that causes things to
happen.


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