Re: [clipboard events] click-to-copy support could be hasFeature discoverable? from James Greene on 2014-05-23 (public-webapps@w3.org from April to June 2014)

From: James Greene <james.m.greene@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 08:21:02 -0500
To: Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>
Cc: Aryeh Gregor <ayg@aryeh.name>, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>, "Hallvord R. M. Steen" <hsteen@mozilla.com>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
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> I wouldn't put this on window though; why not put it on Selection?

This kind of copy does not implicitly have anything to do with Selection,
unless we continue to have its default action be copying the currently
selected text.  It is substantially more likely to be used for custom text
insertion.

Sincerely,
    James Greene

On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org> wrote:

> On 23/05/2014 14:33 , James Greene wrote:
>
>> I'm all in favor of a new API as well.
>>
>
> Me too, as discussed in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/
> Public/public-webapps/2014JanMar/0550.html.
>
> I wouldn't put this on window though; why not put it on Selection?
>
> --
> Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon
>

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