The use case these events were meant to fulfil is described here:
https://w3c.github.io/clipboard-apis/#determining-ui-state
In short: they allow you to tell the UA to enable copy/cut/paste commands
even when they would normally be disabled.
On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 11:48 PM, Gary Kacmarcik
Killing them doesn't sound like the right course of action. We would have to
come up with another API so we can have an alternative to what before
cut/copy/paste do.
Why can't we fire these events regardless of content editability and do actual
editability check during the execution of the