Re: [w3c/clipboard-apis] mac os doesn't recognize 'image/svg+xml' mime type (#105)

> > > > I don't see how this relates to Clipboard API on the Web?
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> > > sorry posted in the wrong place; could you suggest the relevant repo to raise this?
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> > Probably stackoverflow.
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> Tried, nobody answered me. Seems w3c and apple didn't sort this out, and I don't know who or where to ask...
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58795424/how-does-macos-handle-image-svgxml-type-mime-data-in-clipboard

How to use operating system's clipboard implementation (in Cocoa platforms they're called pasteboards) is completely outside the realm of what W3C deals with. W3C is a standard organization for the Web, not every operating system in existence.

As a disclaimer, I'm an engineer at Apple's WebKit team but I sill won't be able to answer your question because the underlying Cocoa API does not use MIME type as means of tracking types of data in pasteboard. Instead, [NSPasteboard](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nspasteboardtype?language=objc) is used. There is a set of [globally known types](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nspasteboardtype?language=objc) but your program can also register a [new UTI](https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/understanding_utis/understand_utis_declare/understand_utis_declare.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40001319-CH204-SW4) and use that instead. Again, MIME type doesn't come into play.

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