Analyze different clipboard approaches

[lostdesign]

Check if https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/clipboard is better than the current used browser Clipboard API.

• check electrons clipboard api

• check https://github.com/sindresorhus/clipboardy

• check native binaries for clipboard to mitigate alpha/gif issue

[lostdesign]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14934327/how-to-get-animated-gif-image-from-browser-clipboard-api
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/dataxchg/standard-clipboard-formats
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7778539/copy-to-clipboard-in-node-js/13735363#13735363

[ahmedwalid05]

• Clipboardy :

  • Doesn't support images

• Electron API:

  • Supports images jpg/png (ico on windows only)
  • Gif support yet to come

• Chrome's Clipboard API:

  • Clipboard api only supports png