Microsoft is working with Google to develop a new set of Pickle Clipboard API, these APIs will improve the default clipboard of Google Chrome and Edge browsers, allowing users to browse Easily copy and paste various complex files types between and native applications.
Currently, Chrome or Edge browsers support standardized copy and paste formats, such as .txt, jpg, png, HTML and other popular formats on Windows 10, macOS, Linux or mobile platforms. However, the existing API does not support the proprietary format. For example, web applications cannot read custom web formats, non-web standard formats (such as TIFF image format), and proprietary formats (such as .docx document format).
With the new Pickle Clipboard API, Microsoft and Google are planning to provide a solution to this problem, that is, in the future Chrome and Edge browsers will be able to copy and paste various custom format files.
According to Microsoft and Google, these will be the main advantages of the upcoming clipboard API:
- Allow copy/paste between web and native applications
- Developers can create custom clipboard formats
- Protect security/privacy
- Provides fine-grained control over the clipboard
- Based on the existing asynchronous clipboard API
In multiple Chromium code patches, Microsoft has confirmed that it has begun to provide custom clipboard format support for Chromium kernel browsers.
