On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Paul Libbrecht <p...@hoplahup.net> wrote: > > As noted in the thread about security started by Halvord: > > > In many of the scenarios I have working for, the content to be put on the > clipboard would come from a "luxury" knowledge structure on the server, one > that has access to some semantic source and can infer useful representations > out of it; these get put to the clipboard. > > An offline HTML would also be an example of it. > > but I am realizing that this is probably not possible to do because the > only way to do obtain something from the server is to wait until a callback > is called (and this is good so) at which time the copy event might be long > gone already. > > Would it be thinkable to *lock* the copy event until either a timeout > occurs or an unlock is called? >
No. We definitely don't want to lock a local system resource for some random web service that may potentially fail to release the lock. - Ryosuke