Re: [Clipboard] Web API for clipboard changes.

Thank you for your interest Arthur.
I have drafted up a more detailed implementation doc and shared it with you
and Hallvord.

Please feel free to take a look and comment.

Kelvin

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 3:57 AM Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 6/2/15 4:05 PM, Kelvin Poon wrote:
> >
> > Hi public-webapps
> >
> >
> > We are exploring a new web API for content to be notified of clipboard
> > changes and would like to discuss it here.
> >
> >
> > The problem
> >
> > For certain classes of web apps, it is necessary to determine when new
> > clipboard contents have been set, e.g. in order to fetch and display
> > them, to update context menus, or synchronize the content with another
> > application or device.
> >
> >
> > The problem is that the web standard currently provides no explicit
> > notifications when new content is copied from another application to
> > the clipboard.  As a result, these web apps typically re-fetch the
> > clipboard every time they regain focus, and only act on the contents
> > if they have changed since last time (e.g. passing it to a remote
> > system, updating context menu, etc).  This polling mechanism is
> > generally inefficient, especially when the clipboard contains a large
> > image file.
> >
> >
> > We currently have interest from Citrix and Chrome Remote Experience
> > teams in improving Chrome's clipboard support.
> >
> >
> > The proposal
> >
> > Google propose to update the W3C Clipboard API and events
> > specification <http://www.w3.org/TR/clipboard-apis/>with an
> > onClipboardChangedevent on the document object.  The user agent should
> > only signal the event if
> >
> > 1. a frame re-gains focus AND
> >
> > 2. the clipboard has changed since it last had focus.
> >
> >
> > In addition, the user agent should not signal clipboard change events
> > while a frame has focus.  This will relieve the web app from the
> > burden of filtering out notifications in response to clipboard changes
> > generated by the app itself.
> >
> >
> > We think this new API will avoid fetching large clipboard content
> > repeatedly and unnecessarily for clipboard changes.
> >
> > Does the community think this API would be useful?
> >
>
> Hallvord, All - do you have any feedback for Kevlin?
>
> > We can go into more details and work on a detailed design together if
> > the community is interested.
> >
>
> Kelvin, if there is a resource that includes details, please let us
> know. (I suppose another option is a Pull Request but it might make
> sense to first wait for some feedback from the group.)
>
> -Thanks, ArtB
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