Re: [clipboard] document.execCommand and clipboard actions

2015-08-27 Thread Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 11:00 AM, yves.ko...@ysadi.be wrote: Hi, Sorry if I might be out of scope, I am quite new in this mailing list. Welcome, and sorry that I'm late at responding. The clipboard is aimed to exchange any? data between any apps running on your computer. It is not a

Re: [clipboard] document.execCommand and clipboard actions

2015-08-07 Thread Johannes Wilm
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen hst...@mozilla.com wrote: ... I haven't been following discussions in that group, so I don't know how many developers they consulted. I'm sure we all understand the frustration with the contentEditable implementations out there -

Re: [clipboard] document.execCommand and clipboard actions

2015-08-06 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:31 PM, Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen hst...@mozilla.com wrote: so I hit a bit of an issue: I've written some parts of the clipboard spec with the assumption that it will be invoked from a document.execCommand('copy'/'cut'/'paste') call (although 'paste' would

Re: [clipboard] document.execCommand and clipboard actions

2015-08-06 Thread Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Anne van Kesteren ann...@annevk.nl wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:31 PM, Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen hst...@mozilla.com wrote: so I hit a bit of an issue: I've written some parts of the clipboard spec with the assumption that it will be invoked from a

Re: [clipboard] document.execCommand and clipboard actions

2015-08-06 Thread Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 2:34 AM, MOHAN ARUN mar...@gmail.com wrote: Would implementors want to support (writing stuff to the clipboard)? Yes, we really, really want to allow that - at least for simple cases. There are plenty of complex questions - for example what formats is it safe to let JS

Re: [clipboard] document.execCommand and clipboard actions

2015-08-06 Thread yves.konen
: Wednesday, August 5, 2015 2:34 AM To: WebApps WG Subject: Re: [clipboard] document.execCommand and clipboard actions Would implementors want to support (writing stuff to the clipboard)? Actually, no - The Simpsons already did it. Lets not think about windows clipboard. Those are Windows. We are browser. I

Re: [clipboard] document.execCommand and clipboard actions

2015-08-05 Thread MOHAN ARUN
Would implementors want to support (writing stuff to the clipboard)? Actually, no - The Simpsons already did it. Lets not think about windows clipboard. Those are Windows. We are browser. I feel clipboard is something that contains copy of contenteditable items of the same web page. We seem to

[clipboard] document.execCommand and clipboard actions

2015-08-04 Thread Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen
Hi, so I hit a bit of an issue: I've written some parts of the clipboard spec with the assumption that it will be invoked from a document.execCommand('copy'/'cut'/'paste') call (although 'paste' would require some extra permission work which no UA but IE has attempted so far). Meanwhile, the