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Your web browser is your operating system. It needs to have access to your peripherals and lower-level things like your clipboard and filesystem.
by VWWHFSfQ 5y ago
Your web browser is your operating system. It needs to have access to your peripherals and lower-level things like your clipboard and filesystem.
- walrus01 5y agoSure it does, doesn't mean it needs to report back to a website what it's doing with it.
- Thorrez 5y agoIs your position that Javascript shouldn't be able to see click and drag events? That would make a lot of browser games, tools (e.g. broswer image editors) and certain browser drag and drop functionality (e.g. a custom video or audio scrub bar) not work. They would require permission popups.