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    <p>I'm frustrated with how far behind other standard web APIs we are with clipboard access.</p> <p>I'm working on a webapp that lets you draw and edit SVG graphics in the browser. The File API lets me load and read an SVG file completely client-side and the SVG API obviously lets me display SVG graphics.</p> <p>But it's impossible to get anything I draw out of the browser and paste it into, say, Photoshop, like you can when you copy something in Illustrator.</p> <p>The W3C denies the ability to manipulate copy events on the grounds of security:</p> <blockquote> <p>Enabling authors to change what is copied by a user, or to make an automated copy of something that was never selected and allowing unrestricted calls to paste information can raise various security and privacy concerns.</p> <p>An example scenario of a problem is where a user selects a link and copies it, but a different link is copied to the clipboard. The effect of this can range from an unexpected result on pasting to an attempted "phishing" attack.</p> </blockquote> <p><em>Source: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/clipboard-apis/#other-security-and-privacy-considerations" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/TR/clipboard-apis/#other-security-and-privacy-considerations</a></em></p> <p>Yet geolocation, which is just as much of a security/privacy consideration, is being supported by the newest browsers with a simple permissions dialog.</p> <p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/2xjT1RA.png" alt="Geolocation permissions dialog"></p> <p>Why can't we have the same thing for copying to the clipboard? It could even be restricted to require a CTRL+C event, to avoid abuse.</p> <blockquote> <p>"so-and-so.com wants to control the data you're copying. [Allow] [Deny]"</p> </blockquote> <p>Users could allow it once for a webapp they trust, and get more out of it forever. And developers could do more exciting things with the web.</p> <p>The recent adoption of <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6219197/how-to-manage-image-pasting-from-clipboard-in-html5">paste capturing</a> gives me some hope. I absolutely love what I can do with this on <a href="http://imgur.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">imgur</a>, for example. (Try copying an image in your OS and pasting it on the homepage of imgur).</p> <p>Is there any chance of what I described becoming possible for copying? Is it being worked on at all?</p>
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