On Jul 12, 2013, at 12:57 PM, James Greene <[email protected]> wrote:
> It appears that the only way to trigger a `copy` event programmatically is to
> use `document.execCommand('copy')`, which most browsers prevent:
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/clipboard-apis/#integration-with-other-scripts-and-events
>
> What about enabling so enabling semi-restricted programmatic clipboard
> injection on a page if the user grants their express permission via a
> once-per-domain security prompt (similar to the Geolocation API)? IOW, given
> a user's express permission to the origin and following a user's pointer
> event or keyboard interaction, I would like to be able to simulate the `copy`
> event (and the `beforecopy` event, if practical).
I don't want the clipboard API specification to mandate one behavior or
another. It's something each browser vendor should be able to decide.
- R. Niwa
