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Chapter 7. Working with Files > Copy and Paste
7.5. Copy and Paste
In addition to drag-and-drop desktop integration, some browsers have support for copying and pasting. The API hasn’t been standardized, and it isn’t part of the HTML5 spec, so you’ll need to determine how to cater to the various browsers.
Again, funnily enough, IE is the pioneer here, with support dating back to IE 5.0. WebKit has taken Microsoft’s API and improved it somewhat, bringing it inline with the drag-and-drop API. Both are virtually identical, except for the different objects: clipboardData rather than dataTransfer.
