Constructor for DataTransfer

Category: User input
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 60)
Intent stage: None

Summary

The new asynchronous clipboard API makes use of DataTransfer objects and has a need to be able to construct new ones. For example (with new clipboard api): var data = new DataTransfer(); data.items.add("\(°o°)/", "text/plain"); navigator.clipboard.write(data).then(function() { console.log(“Copied to clipboard successfully! ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ”); }, function() { console.error(“Unable to write to clipboard. (╯ಠ_ಠ)╯︵ ┻━┻”); });

Standards & signals

Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/interaction.html#the-datatransfer-interface
Firefox: No signal
Safari: No signal
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=677564

Docs: Spec change: https://github.com/whatwg/html/commit/688a102b52c7050a6808a05c5d8fe149c0937fd7 Tests: http://w3c-test.org/html/editing/dnd/datastore/datatransfer-constructor-001.html https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/DataTransfer https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/DataTransfer/DataTransfer

Samples: https://w3c.github.io/clipboard-apis/#h-clipboard-write-data

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