- From: Paul Libbrecht <paul@hoplahup.net>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 09:00:38 +0200
- To: Ben Peters <ben.peters@microsoft.com>
- Cc: public-webapps@w3.org
While I do not know the Safari-Desktop-implementation right now, I know that Apple's UTI has a URL type. See here: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/miscellaneous/Reference/UTIRef/Articles/System-DeclaredUniformTypeIdentifiers.html It would be interesting to see a statement of Apple somewhere committing to these types but I can't find that. paul On 25 juin 2014, at 07:37, Ben Peters <ben.peters@microsoft.com> wrote: > The Clipboard API spec has a section on Mandatory Data Types [1]. It > says "The implementation must recognise the native OS clipboard format > description for the following data types", and contains a list of 14 > mime types. Most of them have clear purposes, but a few seem arbitrary > to me. Since I haven't been around the group long enough to know all > the history, can someone help me clear these up? > > text/uri-list : > This seems like a Windows specific data type. Does Mac or Linux have a > "OS clipboard format description" for this? > > text/css, application/javascript, application/json : > What is the use case here? Why would there be code on the clipboard in > it's own format instead of just text/plain that happened to be code? > > Separately, do we want to apply this to Drag and Drop as well? > > Thanks! > Ben > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/clipboard-apis/#mandatory-data-types-1 >
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