Filtering clipboard MIME types (was: Re: clipboard events)

On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:39:13 +0900, Daniel Cheng <dcheng@chromium.org>  
wrote:

> I'd go one step further and say that there should be some agreement on  
> what
> MIME types ought to be supported to try to insure somewhat consistent
> behavior across different platforms.

To get a table started in the spec, could you give me a small list of  
(MIME) types one should mandate the UA to be aware of and be able to  
"roundtrip" to/from native clipboard types? Just off the top of your head?  
The typical Web MIME types would of course be something along the lines of

text/plain
text/html
image/jpg
image/gif
image/png
application/xhtml+xml
image/svg+xml

What about e.g. RTF?

> The way I'm working on implementing it
> (for drag and drop, though it applies to copy and paste as well),  
> arbitrary
> strings would not be accessible from a non-DOM application, e.g. a native
> app like Word or Photoshop. Only a set of known MIME types would be
> automatically converted to the corresponding native type.

That's dragging from UA to another app, right? So the way to spec it would  
be "during copy/cut processing, the UA should support placing content of  
these MIME types on the clipboard and translate the type to the OS native  
equivalent where applicable" or something like that?

>>  When pulling data from the clipboard
<X>
> I'm choosing
> to restrict the number of native types to a smaller, defined set that are
> visible to webpages. Any paths in this set can be filtered as necessary  
> when a file drag is detected.

Again the specific list of types for this would be great :-)

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Received on Tuesday, 17 May 2011 04:23:41 UTC