Gentle ping..
On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 6:52 AM Thomas Steiner <to...@google.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 7:13 PM Anupam Snigdha <snianu.micros...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> This is a good scenario, but I'm not sure if this can be solved using the
>> current design. You probably want a promise to the ClipboardItem? Also, I
>> think the MIME type in the Clipboarditem is only useful when we are
>> specifying DOMString instead of Blobs, which is currently not supported in
>> Chromium. If we create a Blob after the data has been populated, then we
>> can probably just use the MIME type from the Blob during the clipboard
>> write operation. This feature can be implemented just like the promises to
>> blobs without breaking the sites that use ClipboardItem instead of promises
>> to ClipboardItem, so we should definitely consider adding this to the async
>> clipboard API in the future.
>> The promises to Blobs feature unblocks some of the key scenarios in Excel
>> online as well as scenarios where a promise to the Blob helps in creating
>> the Blob asynchronously without losing the transient user activation delay,
>> so I think this feature will still be useful even if we implement promise
>> to ClipboardItem.
>>
>
> Taking one step back, in my ideal world, Safari would just let me do the
> following without expiring the user gesture:
>
> // Works in Chromium, throws in Safari…
> const { data, type } = await getDataOfUnknownType();
> const blob = new Blob([data], { type });
> navigator.clipboard.write([
> new ClipboardItem({
> [blob.type]: blob,
> }),
> ]);
>
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