Bug 196702 – insertFromPaste InputEvent missing text/uri-list in dataTransfer for pasted links

• Status: NEW
• Component: HTML Editing

[Javan Makhmali]

Created attachment 366966 [details]
Link paste inspection

To reproduce:
1. Open a page containing the following HTML: <a href="https://bugs.webkit.org/">WebKit Bugzilla</a>
2. Right-click the link and choose "Copy Link"
3. Paste into a contenteditable element
4. Inspect the "paste" event's clipboardData: 
   { 
     "text/plain": "https://bugs.webkit.org/", 
     "text/uri-list": "https://bugs.webkit.org/" 
   }
5. Compare that to the "beforeinput" or "input" event's dataTransfer: 
   { 
     "text/html": "<a href="https://bugs.webkit.org/">WebKit Bugzilla</a>", 
     "text/plain": "WebKit Bugzilla" 
   }


Example paste: https://input-inspector.now.sh/profiles/u8CdyvoSRZtimXxzBSS0

[Wenson Hsieh]

(In reply to Javan Makhmali from comment #0)
> Created attachment 366966 [details]
> Link paste inspection
> 
> To reproduce:
> 1. Open a page containing the following HTML: <a
> href="https://bugs.webkit.org/">WebKit Bugzilla</a>
> 2. Right-click the link and choose "Copy Link"
> 3. Paste into a contenteditable element
> 4. Inspect the "paste" event's clipboardData: 
>    { 
>      "text/plain": "https://bugs.webkit.org/", 
>      "text/uri-list": "https://bugs.webkit.org/" 
>    }
> 5. Compare that to the "beforeinput" or "input" event's dataTransfer: 
>    { 
>      "text/html": "<a href="https://bugs.webkit.org/">WebKit Bugzilla</a>", 
>      "text/plain": "WebKit Bugzilla" 
>    }
> 
> 
> Example paste: https://input-inspector.now.sh/profiles/u8CdyvoSRZtimXxzBSS0

Hi Javan!

According to the spec here: https://www.w3.org/TR/input-events-2, the prepopulated DataTransfer object accessible via input events should contain 1 entry for "text/html" and 1 entry for "text/plain". It *seems* reasonable to add one for text/uri-list as well though, in circumstances such as these (pasting or dropping a link).

[Javan Makhmali]

Hey Wenson!

For some context, I recently updated our rich text editor (https://trix-editor.org/) to handle Level 2 Input Events instead of a whole suite of keyboard events. I had hoped to avoid handling the paste event entirely, but ran into a couple cases where beforeinput.insertFromPaste's dataTransfer lacked necessary detail (see also https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194921). I ended up handling both events, relying on the paste event for a handful of known cases where beforeinput won't work, which feels unfortunate. To quote the spec:

> The goal of these events is to allow authors to understand and/or override default edit behavior both before and after editing occurs.

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/49798852>