- From: Ben Peters <Ben.Peters@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 01:17:04 +0000
- To: Daniel Cheng <dcheng@chromium.org>, "Hallvord R. M. Steen" <hsteen@mozilla.com>
- CC: "James M. Greene" <james.m.greene@gmail.com>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Daniel Cheng <dcheng@chromium.org> wrote: > > 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. Internet Explorer puts RTF on the clipboard during copy (as well as HTML, text, etc), so yes we should allow developers to access it.
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