Hi Ian,
I've done some work on a spec for clipboard events, initially just to make
up my mind about what Opera needs to implement, but as it might be a
useful thing in general I've volunteered to edit it as a WebApps WG
delivery. It will be a fairly small spec, only handling clipboard events.
You may or may not have noticed the E-mails on public-webapps:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2010OctDec/1067.html
spec draft:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2010OctDec/att-1067/cbapispec.html
Now, this needs a bit of syncing with HTML5 because right now that spec
defines a ClipboardEvent interface that contains some of the stuff in
HTML5's DataTransfer interface. To avoid this overlap I guess there are
two ways forward, either I remove those bits from the clipboard events
spec and reference HTML5, or you remove them from HTML5 and say that
DataTransfer extends ClipboardEvent. I'm happy either way (though if I'm
going to reference DataTransfer I'll call out explicitly what methods are
required for clipboard events and omit the DnD specific stuff). Which
approach do you think would be better?
Another issue I'd like a comment on is whether you have spec'ed or are
close to spec'ing something that helps with the
paste-text-with-binary-blobs-in use cases. I don't yet know how we should
do that yet.
Thanks in advance - get to this anytime, it's mostly just spec
organisation bureaucracy questions, so not terribly important ;-)
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Hallvord R. M. Steen, Core Tester, Opera Software
http://www.opera.com http://my.opera.com/hallvors/
