Bug 25849 – Clipboard.* are in dom/ but ClipboardMac.* are in platform/

• Status: NEW
• Component: New Bugs

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

Clipboard.* are in dom/ but ClipboardMac.* are in platform/

I think this means that ClipboardMac.* should be moved out of platform/

This is confusing because I don't know if I'm allowed to use dom stuff in Clipboard classes.

[Darin Adler]

Yes, ClipboardMac should be moved to be next to Clipboard in a mac subdirectory. Unfortunately, Pasteboard also doesn't qualify to be in the platform directory. It probably needs to go into the editing directory.

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

It sounds like Clipboard might need to be split?  Into dom/DOMClipboard.* and platform/Clipboard.*, or is Pasteboard* already supposed to be the platform/clipboard* stuff and we just haven't factored things quite right?

[Darin Adler]

(In reply to comment #2)
> It sounds like Clipboard might need to be split?  Into dom/DOMClipboard.* and
> platform/Clipboard.*, or is Pasteboard* already supposed to be the
> platform/clipboard* stuff and we just haven't factored things quite right?

Yes.

Clipboard is a DOM object and should stay as one.

Pasteboard is an attempt at a platform abstraction for pasteboards/clipboards, but:

    1) Clipboard doesn't try to us it!
    2) It has reverse dependencies on the DOM and Frame anyway, so it's not a good platform layer citizen, and probably needs to go into the editing directory.

Making Pasteboard a better abstraction that really can live entirely in the platform directory is a one future direction, but for now we can probably live with having it in the editing directory for now, and Clipboard can use it as much as possible. Maybe later we can find a lower-level part we can truly factor out so it can go in the platform directory.

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

Thank you for the insight.