Does Safari handle the paste event correctly?

Question

I\'m trying to write some code for Safari for handling the \'paste\' event, but it doesn\'t seem to work right. According to the WebKit DOM reference, oncut, <

Answer 1

I think the answer, as unsatisfying as it might be, is "no". See this WebKit bug:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75891

If your intention is to receive paste data into something that's not contentEditable, a text input or a text area, I don't know of any method to make the current version of Safari do this.

Update: an attempted work-around in this JSFiddle, simplified to only deal with text, does not work in Safari 6.0.5. It attempts a work-around where a hidden text field is automatically focused when Cmd-V is pressed, just in order to enable pasting in Safari. It does prevent the "you can't paste beep", but no paste event is sent and nothing is pasted into the secret input.

$(function () {
    $(window).bind('keydown', function (e) {
        // Cmd-V
        if (e.which == 86 && e.metaKey) {
            if (e.target.nodeName.toUpperCase() !== "INPUT")
                $('#secretinput').focus();
        }
    });

    $(window).bind('beforepaste', function (e) {
        return false;
    });

    $(window).bind('paste', function (e) {
        var clipboardData = e.originalEvent.clipboardData;
        console.log(clipboardData);
        $('#textdest').html(clipboardData.getData('text/plain'));
    });
});