Florian, as I pointed out earlier, this proposal is to remove the requirement that user agents allow content to set the local system clipboard directly with certain pre-existing clipboard formats, because doing so safely is not possible in general. Removing the requirement from the spec will simply mean that the spec more accurately reflects what is actually implemented in existing user agents.
Defining how user agents can/should support setting of arbitrary formats is a separate discussion; user agents don't generally support that - including not supporting application/octet-stream, which the spec doesn't actually define the behaviour of! - so it would in effect be a new feature of the API the behaviour of which would need to be properly specified. Please feel free to fork this thread if that's something you'd like to propose ideas for. :) Thanks! On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 at 19:13 Florian Bösch <pya...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think you underestimate the integrative need that web-apps will acquire > and the lengths they will go to faced with a business need to make it work > once "clipboard API" becomes common developer knowledge. >
