Web apps just got a major speed boost for pasting. Until now, http://navigator.clipboard.read() fetched and sanitized every data format on your clipboard upfront, wasting CPU and memory on data your app didn't even need. Starting in Chrome & Edge 149, the Async Clipboard API switches to Selective format read. What changes? ClipboardItem now acts as a lazy handle. Bytes are only read and sanitized when you call getType(). The payoff? Instant latency drops, massive memory savings, and zero…