On Wed, 04 May 2011 02:26:22 +0900, Paul Libbrecht <p...@hoplahup.net>
wrote:
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.
Indeed.
Would it be thinkable to *lock* the copy event until either a timeout
occurs or an unlock is called?
It sounds like a quite "advanced" use case. I briefly considered something
like event.clipboardData.pushContentsOfURL('/foo/bar') but that would be
way to limited in options - POST/GET, post data etc. I would like to defer
this to later and see if we get more demand for it. Overall, the push for
web applications is a lot about removing logic from the server and adding
more on the client's side, so I'm unsure how common this state (when the
server knows significantly more than the client-side logic about what
should be placed on the clipboard) is and will be going forward.
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