Simple is good enough [LWN.net]

Simple is good enough

Posted Nov 25, 2010 21:56 UTC (Thu) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183)
In reply to: Simple is good enough by i3839
Parent article: LPC: Life after X

> Problem is that in the case of html, you generally lose the formatting information because that's not in the part you copied, but higher up or in a css file. So there is no native format, you don't want to copy raw html code into a word processor, nor the plain text, but something that more or less looks like what you copied.

Just for interest I copied some text in Firefox and ran my clipboard format viewer. Here are the results:

$ ../tmp/viewclipformats
Found clipboard format: TIMESTAMP
Found clipboard format: TARGETS
Found clipboard format: MULTIPLE
Found clipboard format: text/html
Found clipboard format: text/_moz_htmlcontext
Found clipboard format: text/_moz_htmlinfo
Found clipboard format: UTF8_STRING
Found clipboard format: COMPOUND_TEXT
Found clipboard format: TEXT
Found clipboard format: STRING
Found clipboard format: text/x-moz-url-priv

Without knowing, it wouldn't surprise me if one of those contained both the html and the formatting information, which I think should be feasible with my proposal too.

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