Intent to Prototype: Clipboard contentsID
Luke Klimek
Contact emails
Explainer
https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/clipboard-contents-id
Specification
None
Summary
An API exposing a unique identifier of the current system clipboard contents. It is a supplement to the current Async Clipboard API and enables websites leveraging clipboard access to detect clipboard content changes much more efficiently.
Blink component
Motivation
The only somewhat reliable way to monitor clipboard changes is polling it at regular intervals - which is usually not efficient, especially in case of big contents' size.
There already exists a proposal that aims to make this better - clipboardchange event - but the functionality there makes it difficult to differentiate changes done externally from those originating from the app itself, as is the common occurrence in the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure clients. Leveraging any one - and preferably both of those APIs - would make current heuristics for clipboard monitoring much better.
We'll be working with the Web Editing Working Group and the clipboardchange event proponents to ensure the full system is coherent.
Initial public proposal
https://github.com/w3c/clipboard-apis/issues/232
TAG review
None
TAG review status
Pending
Risks
Interoperability and Compatibility
None
Gecko: No signal
WebKit: No signal
Web developers: No signals
Other signals:
WebView application risks
Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?
None
Debuggability
None
Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests?
No
Flag name on about://flags
None
Finch feature name
None
Non-finch justification
None
Requires code in //chrome?
False
Estimated milestones
No milestones specified
Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status
https://chromestatus.com/feature/5124993439236096?gate=5118994141675520
This intent message was generated by Chrome Platform Status.
Stephen Chenney
Contact emails
Explainer
https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/clipboard-contents-id
Specification
None
Summary
An API exposing a unique identifier of the current system clipboard contents. It is a supplement to the current Async Clipboard API and enables websites leveraging clipboard access to detect clipboard content changes much more efficiently.
Blink component
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