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

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 3:36 AM, Hallvord R. M. Steen <hsteen@mozilla.com>
wrote:

> > Does anyone else have input for/against this?
>
> Conceptually, I guess RTF sort of covers the same use cases as HTML. That
> doesn't necessarily mean we should not add it.
>
> I don't have "input" as such, but I have a few questions:
> Is there any widely used software that writes RTF data to the system
> clipboard but *not* HTML?
>
> If there's RTF on the clipboard and you try pasting into a rich text
> editing element, does any browser convert RTF to HTML to preserve the
> formatting?
>

Chrome Mac should (though I've never tested this functionality). I think
the code for this was inherited from Camino, so Firefox may have this as
well. It's not common--it's only implemented on Mac because there's some
platform support already for parsing RTF into a NSAttributedString and then
dumping the result as HTML.


>
> Did anyone ever write a complete RTF parser in JavaScript? If you could
> read raw RTF data off the clipboard, how would you process it? How likely
> do you think it is that those who write web editors will go through the
> efforts and add code to handle RTF paste?
>
> -Hallvord
>
>