[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 47482] Add webkitGetDataBlob/webkitSetDataBlob to event.dataTransfer

Wed Oct 27 15:15:36 PDT 2010

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47482

Dmitry Titov <dimich at chromium.org> changed:

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--- Comment #9 from Dmitry Titov <dimich at chromium.org>  2010-10-27 15:15:36 PST ---
(From update of attachment 71825)
I think there should be a better proposal before this kind of patch can land.

The linked post (http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2010-June/026910.html) only contains a question about what would be the preferred shape of API for exchanging non-text data with clipboard. I think it didn't get responses because context was unclear.

It is not exactly clear what kind of use case these APIs are going to enable, what kind of data are we talkign about, sizes and speeds (if data is big or produced on demand, then perhaps it should not be a synchronous API?) etc.  It is hard to say, based on information in this bug, whether or not these APIs are all right since it's unclear what exact data transfer scenarios they are going to be used for.

If this is a part of a bigger modification, it could be also useful to see what it is (since it mentions non-text data in clipboardData). In short, I think this requires a proposal or design doc.

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