On , Paul Libbrecht <p...@hoplahup.net> wrote:
Hello list,
As noted in the thread about security started by Halvord:
In many of the scenarios I have working for, the content to be put on the clipboard would
come from a "luxury" knowledge structure on the server, one that has access to
some semantic source and can infer useful representations out of it; these get put to the
clipboard.
An offline HTML would also be an example of it.
but I am realizing that this is probably not possible to do because the only
way to do obtain something from the server is to wait until a callback is
called (and this is good so) at which time the copy event might be long gone
already.
Would it be thinkable to *lock* the copy event until either a timeout occurs or
an unlock is called?
This way the script in the client would be able to fetch rich transformations
from the server.
A synchronous XHR solves this use case and there are no magic locks.
