Constructor for DataTransfer

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

Breaking change: No
Enterprise impact: None
Spec maturity: Working draft

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

Ecosystem

Web Platform Tests: https://wpt.fyi/results/?q=constructor-for-datatransfer
Chrome Platform Showcase: https://chrome-platform-showcase.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
GenDN reference: https://gendn.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
chrome.dev demos search: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Achrome.dev+Constructor%20for%20DataTransfer
MDN Web Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=Constructor%20for%20DataTransfer
Baseline status: https://webstatus.dev/?q=Constructor%20for%20DataTransfer

Docs: 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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