- From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:12:34 -0700
- To: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- Cc: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>, W3Cwww-style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>
On Jun 25, 2012, at 10:45 AM, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com> wrote: > > [Christoph Päper:] >> >> >> With 'text-transform' some UAs ignore the code/style distinction already: >> When you copy text that was case-changed through CSS from a browser into a >> plain-text environment, it will often be pasted with the casing displayed in >> the browser instead of the one stored in the source code. I strongly believe >> this is just as wrong as not copying "display: none" parts to the clipboard. > > I'm not sure why that would be wrong, especially from the point of view of an > end user. If someone copies/paste something from a web page into their email > client and the case changes they are imo far more likely to be surprised and > consider it a bug than to think 'oh thank God the browser preserved the state > of the markup instead' Well the CSS is just supposed to be stylistic. So what's pasted should either be styled (including color, size, text-transform, etc.) or not. Just because the author of the Web page thought it would look cool to have my name and address in all caps doesn't mean that's how I want it as a user. If I use Word's "paste special" to paste without formatting, or if I paste into something else that normally strips styling (such as another form field), then I'd expect ALL styling to be stripped. Indeed, for names, I think having it in all caps is significantly less useful, in spite of how clever the author thinks he's being. (I meant to send this yesterday)
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