Will there ever be an HTML5 Clipboard API? [closed]
I'm frustrated with how far behind other standard web APIs we are with clipboard access. 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. 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. The W3C denies the ability to manipulate copy events on the grounds of security: Enabling authors to change what is copied by a user, or to make an