Do not delete File kind objects in dataTransfer.clearData()

Category: Miscellaneous
Type: No developer-visible change
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 122)
Intent stage: None

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

Standards & signals

Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dnd.html#dom-datatransfer-cleardata
Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
Safari: Shipped/Shipping
Web developers: Positive
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1402130

Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y8WW9kxQQ6Q0YCo3FQkLQBIJWb2c9fZBBOOT7YUkU8o/edit?usp=sharing https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dnd.html#dom-datatransfer-cleardata

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