- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 23:41:48 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Chris O'Brien <accounts@prettycode.org>, Mike Taylor <miket@opera.com>
- Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012, Chris O'Brien wrote: > > This is my first post to the mailing list, so please forgive me if the > following is inappropriate for the list and let me know where I should > direct this instead (help@whatwg.org? <http://help@whatwg.org/?>). > > In all the last-released versions of the major browsers (except Opera), > there's support for cut-and-paste events like "onpaste" on <input > type="text"... and <textarea> elements. > > Is there any plan to put these events into the standard? Isn't that a > basic tenent of WHATWG--if the real-world vendor implementations are in > consensus yet don't reflect the standard, change (or add to) the > standard to reflect the de facto market standard, so long as any > modifications are backwards compatible? On Thu, 26 Jan 2012, Mike Taylor wrote: > > You're probably looking for this: > http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/clipops/clipops.html. A search for > "clipboard data API" in the archives might bring up some interesting > discussion as well. Yeah, I haven't added this to the HTML spec because of the existence of Hallvord's work cited above. I haven't reviewed it closely. I think it might make sense to embed it into the larger HTML spec, but that's basically up to Hallvord. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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