Bug 161544

Summary:	Access the pasteboard data in multiple formats is not working
Product:	WebKit	Reporter:	Daniel Böhringer <daniel.boehringer>
Component:	DOM	Assignee:	Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	Blocker	CC:	daniel.boehringer, hello, kerusan, martin
Priority:	P2	Keywords:	HTML5
Version:	Safari 9
Hardware:	All
OS:	OS X 10.11
URL:	http://codebits.glennjones.net/editing/getclipboarddata.htm

Description Daniel Böhringer 2016-09-02 12:40:39 PDT

Your documentation promises the ability to access the pasteboard data in multiple formats: https://developer.apple.com/library/iad/documentation/AppleApplications/Conceptual/SafariJSProgTopics/Tasks/CopyAndPaste.html

however, if i copy rich text from e.g. Pages.app, i cannot read the rich text from within Safari.
you can verify this here:
http://codebits.glennjones.net/editing/getclipboarddata.htm

Chrome and Firefox do not expose this problem. Firefox even gives access to RTF data when rich text is on the pasteboard.

Comment 1 Martin Carlberg 2016-09-02 15:05:36 PDT

Yeah, please fix this. This is a very irritating bug.

Comment 2 Kjell Nilsson 2016-09-04 02:30:15 PDT

We need this in a system running for the City of Gothenburg, Sweden. Right now we have to tell all our users that they need to use Google Chrome instead ;-/. Thanks.

Comment 3 Daniel Böhringer 2016-09-21 04:14:46 PDT

the issue is still present in Safari 10.
Please fix as soon as possible.

Comment 4 Jessica 2017-01-12 22:17:01 PST

It appears that any macOS pasteboard type which isn’t utf-8 plain text will return an empty string in the paste event.

It’d be lovely if this could be improved!

Comment 5 Lucas Forschler 2019-02-06 09:18:29 PST

Mass move bugs into the DOM component.