Re: typing of drag/drop objects in clipboard

[Paul Libbrecht]

Tim Berners-Lee wrote:

There is a lot of architecture in the clipboard.

I think it is important that the WebAPI clipboard is very web architecture compatible.

Definitely agreed. Charles has set that a full-fledged-clipboard specification was thought as version 2, trying to get version 1 as soon as possible out with (almost?) IE and Safari compatibility. I'm afraid that this means the clipboard is limited in content-types (URL, text, I fear).

Desktop clipboards, like HTTP, have concepts of type negotiation.

Definitely!

It would be logical to make the clipboard type in WebAPI carry content-type

[and later negotiate it].

I always thought the clipboardData to be a map associating mime-types to data... extending this is not an issue I believe.

paul

I wonder, however if the copy-and-paste or drag-and-drop negotiation wouldn't take advantage of being more HTTP-like. E.g., the current architectures I know do not say anything about the recipient and provider application names... whereas this is a classical http header.

Setting and getting the data to be transferred



setData()

getData()

clearData()
This clears the data from the object.

Internet Explorer provides 3 methods for the clipboardData and dataTransfer objects: This takes one or two parameters. The first must be set to either 'text' or 'URL' (case-insensitive). This takes one parameter, that allows the target to request a specific type of data.

smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature