Re: [clipboard] Add RTF to the "mandatory data types" list?

Oh, and I should also mention that the Flash Player clipboard (which we are
trying to kill) supports plain text, HTML, and RTF, as well as custom
"application-defined" data types.

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/desktop/Clipboard.html
On Oct 17, 2013 5:44 AM, "James Greene" <james.m.greene@gmail.com> wrote:

> Would it be possible to add RTF (MIME type of "application/rtf") [1] to
> the "mandatory data types" [2] list?
>
> While it is a proprietary file format held by Microsoft, it also has
> public specs [3][4] and is designed for cross-platform interchange of text
> and graphics.
>
> More importantly, I speculate that it is one of the top three types of
> text formats that people copy-and-paste: plain text, RTF, and HTML. It is
> also supported, or at least readable, by almost every word processing
> application ever made: Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, WordPad, OpenOffice,
> FreeOffice, LibreOffice, etc. This is not limited to desktop office
> application either, however, as RTF is also supported by online solutions
> such as Google Docs, Zoho Docs, etc.
>
> With all that in mind, it definitely seems like it should be on the
> "mandatory data types" list.
>
> Are there any legal roadblocks to making a proprietary data format a
> mandatory type? Are there any other reasons why people think that RTF
> should be excluded from the list?
>
> Please let me know and/or discuss.  Thanks!
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format
> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/clipboard-apis/#mandatory-data-types-1
> [3] RTF spec v1.8
> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7105
> [4] RTF spec v1.9.1
> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=10725
>
>
> Sincerely,
>     James Greene
>
>