On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 04:31:01 +0900, Ian Hickson <[email protected]> wrote:
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Hallvord R. M. Steen wrote:
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.
Is it intended to also cover cut, copy and paste?
Sorry, I don't understand the question.
The current spec draft
seems very vague about when the events fire and what their default
actions are, but I can't tell if that's intentional or not.
No vagueness is intended.
Could you give me two examples of things that needs to be more specific,
one regarding timing and one regarding default action?
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?
What do browsers do? Do they use the same object, including the
drag-and-drop specific attributes, or is it a different interface?
In WebKit, event.clipboardData in copy/cut/paste events and
event.dataTransfer in drag/drop events both implement a "Clipboard"
interface, so the same attributes are available.
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.
Editing as a whole is rather under-defined right now. I don't have plans
to work on it in the comming weeks.
OK, I'll look at use cases and what IE/WebKit/Gecko do.
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Hallvord R. M. Steen, Core Tester, Opera Software
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