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But, that's done on websites as well, and frankly it's annoying. Giving apps the ability to put stuff into the clipboard and extract it out again has been made

But, that's done on websites as well, and frankly it's annoying. Giving apps the ability to put stuff into the clipboard and extract it out again has been made too hard (and one of the few remaining applications of flash). I'd even settle for the ability to put stuff in the clipboard programmatically ... This is a case of overly broad security imho.

ploggingdev 10y ago
> But, that's done on websites as well Can websites running in background tabs access the clipboard contents on the Desktop?
- btown 10y ago
  The spec says no, but there's no guarantee that a browser implementation doesn't "through an implementation-dependent mechanism" give this access by default. https://www.w3.org/TR/clipboard-apis/#event-handlers-that-are-allowed-to-read-from-clipboard https://www.w3.org/TR/clipboard-apis/#event-handlers-that-ar...
- emodendroket 10y ago
  In my experience browsers won't let you see the clipboard at all unless the user initiates a paste event.