Constructor for DataTransfer

The new asynchronous clipboard API makes use of DataTransfer objects and has a need to be able to construct new ones. For example (with new clipboard api): var data = new DataTransfer(); data.items.add("\(°o°)/", "text/plain"); navigator.clipboard.write(data).then(function() { console.log(“Copied to clipboard successfully! ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ”); }, function() { console.error(“Unable to write to clipboard. (╯ಠ_ಠ)╯︵ ┻━┻”); });

Demo

• https://w3c.github.io/clipboard-apis/#h-clipboard-write-data

Documentation

• Spec change: https://github.com/whatwg/html/commit/688a102b52c7050a6808a05c5d8fe149c0937fd7
• Tests: http://w3c-test.org/html/editing/dnd/datastore/datatransfer-constructor-001.html

Specification

Editor's draft

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink>DataTransfer

In development (launch bug)

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: No public signals
• Edge: No public signals
• Safari: No public signals
• Web Developers: No signals

Owner

• garykac@chromium.org

Last updated on 2017-06-14