2009/5/20 PhistucK <[email protected]>:
> I guess we need the permissions system first (or are you saying it will just
> be a regular extensions API with no explicit permission?).
> Other than that, it should be pretty straightforward, right?
> I mean, it is something that the renderer can do? or does the sandbox limit
> prevent this?
> If nothing is actually preventing, copy\paste\cut C++ functions should be
> created and get bound to the JavaScript with no IPC stuff or complications.

I haven't looked at this, but I imagine the renderer probably is not
currently allowed to copy data at arbitrary times to the clipboard.
The browser knows when a copy operation was requested by the user, so
presumably for normal web pages, it is asking the renderer what the
current selection is at the right time. However, extensions could be
special cased since they run in a more privileged type of renderer.

Yes, we need the permissions system setup to enable this in the real
world, but there's no reason we couldn't start work on this earlier.
The IPC stuff is not hard. We have lots of plumbing set up for it
already.

If anyone is interested in helping here, let me know.

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