- Cancelling the event can result in one of two things:
- If event.clipboardData is empty, nothing happens. The system
clipboard does not change. Here, the spec differs from how browsers
behave so I've chosen to document how browsers behave. Neither Firefox
nor Chrome let you clear the
Daniel,
I personally think it is not at all a good idea to populate the clipboard
when starting the drag!
It makes sense when a copy operation is triggered, as the application may be
vanishing.
Most desktop DnDs I have observed only operate the transformation when the drop
has occurred (hence
The issue I've come up against is in keyboard access to the DnD model.
Clipboard semantics exist in their own world, with OS quirks.
DnD presupposed some kind of security-consent from the user. It's one of the
most powerful gestures, allowing a user to grant read access to an entire
directory
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 1:22 AM, Daniel Cheng dch...@google.com wrote:
I've noticed that the way that drag-and-drop processing model is written,
the default content that would be in the drag data store is available in
the dragstart event.
Right, I think this makes total sense. A common example might be to add
your page's URL, copyright notice, etc. to the end of whatever text the
user has selected WITHOUT having to query the Selection/Range APIs to
[hopefully] retrieve their selected text.
I am discouraged, however, to see
Sorry, I think I must've misunderstand what your original proposed changes
were as I thought you meant that the DataTransfer interface's items weren't
being pre-populated on the ClipboardEvent's clipboardData property for
beforecopy/copy events. Now I'm thinking that THAT is already in place and
