July 29th F2F Agenda Item - Data and dataTransfer attributes

[gked]

What should the relation between the two be? See Issue 131.

[gked]

We'll keep data only for insertText with dataTransfer set to null input type and for other input types use dataTransfer and data set to null.

[garykac]

Summary:

• cut/copy/paste/drag/drop: dataTransfer=, data=null
• insertText: data=, dataTransfer=null
• other beforeinputs have both of these these = null

Would be nice to express in a table as was done for pointerevents.

[johanneswilm]

@garykac Earlier, we decided to remove the copy beforeinput event, right?

[gked]

@johanneswilm,
Right. The reason from what I remember is that Input event should be paired with beforeInput event.

[johanneswilm]

@gked: Yepp, that's also what I remembered. I just noted @garykac had added it again in the overview above, so I wanted to make sure we are on the same page with this. I did remove it from the spec, but we can always add it again if we change our minds.

[johanneswilm]

This issue was moved to w3c/input-events#16