[olliej]

You need it for google docs, etc to intercept paste events and do the right thing from the perspective of a document editor.

But this also illustrates the fact that "useful" browser features can be trivially abused.

[kstrauser]

That's an interesting point. I could see the feature looking like:

- Allowing a page to intercept a paste.

- If the page doesn't modify the DOM in response, then override it and actually paste the content.

[jaywalk]

Still trivial to bypass.

[kstrauser]

Maybe, but it might block the common case of "well intentioned developer breaks the built-in functionality without realizing it".

[jaywalk]

Is that really a common case when paste is disabled? I can't recall ever coming across it where it wasn't obvious that it was intentional.

[kstrauser]

That may be true. Maybe instead we could have a menu like

- Copy

- Paste

- No, really, paste the darn text