Re: [clipboard] Semi-Trusted Events Alternative

On 16 sept. 2014, at 02:36, Brian Matthews (brmatthe) <brmatthe@cisco.com> wrote:
> And again what about the naïve user that doesn’t even know what an extension is or read
> somewhere that they’re “bad”, or will even understand what happened when
> their wife/husband/parent/child finds http://<insert unsavory domain of
> your choice> in their clipboard or browser history?


There's a zillion such pollution that can happen today.

- Popups are an example (if private browsing is not on): they pollute the history
- An easy example is the download (with content-disposition not being inline) of random files (e.g. executables, pictures, pdfs) when you navigate to a site. This happens at really poor sites in an unintentional way.

The poorness of the site is the users' experience.


This function can positively affect people that employ a website that is sane and offers the function of copying an element of the site (e.g. with a button in a rollover…). Using websites that are not sane can happen, but generally, one tends to go away from them! The whole web has grown this way.

paul