On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Hallvord R. M. Steen
hst...@mozilla.com wrote:
On the other hand, perhaps we could just observe the clipboardData.items
list? If this list is not empty, the payload must have been changed during
processing. So if the default is prevented OR
Maybe. It seems some refactoring is needed either way. The underlying
data model for .items is drag data store item list which is a term
that's somewhat different from what we have here.
I think that's a feature, not a bug - for example, many operating systems let
you 'copy' and 'paste' files
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Hallvord R. M. Steen
hst...@mozilla.com wrote:
The way HTML5 specs setData() and the other parts of the API shouldn't cause
any problems for our use case, no?
I guess.
In any event, you should refer to the underlying concepts, not the API
side of things. If
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 3:42 AM, Hallvord R. M. Steen hst...@mozilla.comwrote:
a) The event is script-generated and has a data payload (new
ClipboardEvent('copy', {dataType:'text/plain', data:'Hi World'}))
I'm a little confused. Script-generated events never have a default
action,
Hi,
there's a very annoying gotcha in the clipboard events spec: the default
action of for example the copy event is to copy any selected text in the page
(and do nothing if there is no selection). This remains the default action even
if you use event.clipboardData.setData() and friends to
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Hallvord R. M. Steen
hst...@mozilla.com wrote:
a) The event is script-generated and has a data payload (new
ClipboardEvent('copy', {dataType:'text/plain', data:'Hi World'}))
b) Any event listener calls setData() or modifies the DataTransfer payload
some other
From: annevankeste...@gmail.com annevankeste...@gmail.com on behalf of Anne
van Kesteren ann...@annevk.nl
Can you sanely explain those using a JavaScript implementation or would that
be some kind of weird stack-inspecting feature?
My impression was that it would be something like:
if (data)
Can you sanely explain those using a JavaScript implementation or would that
be some kind of weird stack-inspecting feature?
My impression was that it would be something like:
if (data) {
this.preventDefault();
}
Domenic: thanks for explaining, that's pretty much exactly what I'm
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Hallvord R. M. Steen hst...@mozilla.comwrote:
a) The event is script-generated and has a data payload (new
ClipboardEvent('copy', {dataType:'text/plain', data:'Hi World'}))
I'm a little confused. Script-generated events never have a default
action, except for
