Async Clipboard: Read and Write Images

Implements programmatic copying and pasting of images for the Async Clipboard API. This change also updates navigator.clipboard.read() and navigator.clipboard.write() to comply with the specification. Programmatic copying and pasting of images is Chromium's top starred bug.

Specification

Editor's draft

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink>DataTransfer

Enabled by default (tracking bug) in:

Chrome for desktop release 76
Chrome for Android release 76
Android WebView release 76

Consensus & Standardization

After a feature ships in Chrome, the values listed here are not guaranteed to be up to date.

Firefox: No public signals
Edge: No public signals
Safari: No public signals
Web Developers: Strongly positive

Owners

huangdarwin@chromium.org
pwnall@chromium.org
garykac@chromium.org

Intent to Implement url

Intent to Implement thread

Last updated on 2019-06-04