Web-Facing Change PSA: Do not delete File kind objects in dataTransfer.clearData()

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Anupam Snigdha

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Jan 8, 2024, 4:55:01 PM1/8/24
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Summary

As per the spec https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dnd.html#dom-datatransfer-cleardata, clearData() does not affect the File objects -- it only deletes the `text` kind objects. More info: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y8WW9kxQQ6Q0YCo3FQkLQBIJWb2c9fZBBOOT7YUkU8o/edit?usp=sharing



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TAG review status

Not applicable

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Interoperability and Compatibility

Firefox has already shipped this change.



Gecko: Shipped/Shipping

WebKit: No signal

Web developers: Positive (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1402130)

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Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?

None



Debuggability

Existing devtools support for DataTransfer APIs is sufficient to debug this API.



Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and Android WebView)?

Yes

Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests?

Yes

https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/pull/43851



Flag name on chrome://flags

DataTransferClearStringItems

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DataTransferClearStringItems

Requires code in //chrome?

False

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Anupam Snigdha

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Jan 8, 2024, 5:11:39 PM1/8/24
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Making few edits in TAG review and status of Webkit. This change has already shipped in both Firefox and Safari.

From: Anupam Snigdha
Sent: Monday, January 8, 2024 1:54 PM
To: blin...@chromium.org <blin...@chromium.org>
Cc: Sanket Joshi (EDGE) <sa...@microsoft.com>; Palak Bhatia <palak...@microsoft.com>
Subject: Web-Facing Change PSA: Do not delete File kind objects in dataTransfer.clearData()
 
None. This change has already shipped in both Safari and Firefox, and has been in the DataTransfer API spec:  https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dnd.html#dom-datatransfer-cleardata.

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Firefox has already shipped this change.



Gecko: Shipped/Shipping

WebKit: Shipped/Shipping
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