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Allow JS-triggered copy/cut with a user gesture

Category

DOM

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 43)

Intent stage

None

Summary

execCommand("copy") and execCommand("cut") should be allowed to modify the system clipboard in the context of a user gesture (the spec uses the language "allowed to show a popup").

Standards & signals

• Specification: http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/clipops/clipops.html#events-that-are-allowed-to-modify-the-clipboard
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: Shipped/Shipping
• Web developers: Positive
• Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/437908

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/document.execCommand http://updates.html5rocks.com/2015/04/cut-and-copy-commands

Samples: http://jsbin.com/yanamebope/quiet https://github.com/GoogleChrome/samples/tree/gh-pages/cut-and-copy

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