>> a page can wipe out my entire clipboard history if I move my mouse over >>it.
> Not quite :) Check the list of events - mousemove isn't included: > http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/browsers.html#allowed-to-show-a-popup I was just going by where I¹ve seen pages pop up windows, and I¹ve seen pages that pop up windows just by moving the mouse across them. I can¹t remember where so can¹t provide examples. However, even if we assume that was something else (browser bug, user error :-) ), the fact that just clicking anywhere on a page is enough to allow the page to stuff something in my clipboard is concerning. > Keeping in mind that Flash has had similar policies for a while and >"some site put weird stuff on my clipboard" hasn't been a frequent >complaint so far (and AFAIK hasn't been needed as defence in court yet), >I think and hope we're shipping a reasonable and balanced policy here. Isn¹t Flash limited to a region of the page? That is, the Flash clipboard copier can¹t catch a click anywhere on the page, just in the region the Flash script is running in. Or can a page have a transparent Flash that covers the whole page? I run with FlashBlock so I don¹t know a lot about all the things Flash can do. And I suppose that¹s the answer here too, someone will write an extension to block a page from modifying or reading the clipboard and I¹ll just use that. Although that doesn¹t help on mobile browsers that don¹t allow extensions. Brian
