Issue with "Clipboard API": read/write permissions are gone/being gone

[saschanaz]

MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Clipboard_API

What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

Access to the contents of the clipboard is gated behind the Permissions API: The clipboard-write permission is granted automatically to pages when they are in the active tab. The clipboard-read permission must be requested, which you can do by trying to read data from the clipboard.

Specific section or headline?

What did you expect to see?

That part should be removed, since Apple and Mozilla have no intent to implement them and thus they are (being) dropped from the specs:

• Remove clipboard-read from PermissionName w3c/permissions#228
• Remove clipboard-write w3c/permissions#246
• Remove clipboard-read permission w3c/clipboard-apis#132
• Remove clipboard-write permission w3c/clipboard-apis#164 (in progress)

The compat table should probably also include permission support.

Did you test this? If so, how?

MDN Content page report details

• Folder: en-us/web/api/clipboard_api
• MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Clipboard_API
• GitHub URL: https:/mdn/content/blob/main/files/en-us/web/api/clipboard_api/index.md
• Last commit: 2279e5a
• Document last modified: 2021-09-14T18:08:09.000Z

[sideshowbarker]

Opened #12066 for the MDN change

The compat table should probably also include permission support.

It seems like that should be handled with a BCD PR first