And, again, I don't see what that has to do with whether the spec mandates that user agents let apps place JPEG, PNG or GIF directly on the local system clipboard. The spec doesn't currently mandate OpenEXR be supported, so it's currently up to individual user agents to decide whether they can support that format safely.
On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 at 14:16 Florian Bösch <pya...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Wez <w...@google.com> wrote: > >> I think there's obvious value in support for arbitrary content-specific >> formats, but IMO the spec should at least give guidance on how to present >> the capability in a safe way. >> > Which is exactly the core of my question. If you intend to make it say, > safe to put OpenEXR into the clipboard (as opposed to letting an app just > put any bytes there), the UA has to understand OpenEXR. Since I don't see > how the UA can understand every conceivable format in existence both future > and past, I don't see how that should work. >
