I need to implement task which is quite common feature for RichTextEditors - take HTML from clipboard. Can anyone help with guide on how to solve this task?

It has to be cross platform (IE, FF, Chrome, Opera). I just started from this code:

<script type="text/javascript">
    $('.historyText').live('input paste', function(e) {

        var paste = e.clipboardData && e.clipboardData.getData ?
        e.clipboardData.getData('text/plain') :                // Standard
        window.clipboardData && window.clipboardData.getData ?
        window.clipboardData.getData('Text') :                 // MS
        false;

        alert(paste);
    });</script>

Both window.clipboardData and e.clipboardData are null (Chrome, Firefox).

Update: User wants to paste article content from other browser windows, and I need to get html tags.

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