Re: [clipboard] Dilemma: getData('text/html') and useful CF_HTML quirks

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 4:13 AM, Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen <
hsteen@mozilla.com> wrote:

> We're exploring text/html paste behaviours in Mozilla bug 586587 [1] and
> running into some tricky questions I'd like to discuss here.
>
> Basically, on Windows IE and other apps that write HTML to the clipboard
> use the CF_HTML format. This format is simply described as
>

There's some related discussion in bug 137450[1], I wrote a patch for that
quite a few years ago (that never landed). In the comments someone pointed
out that Microsoft has documented CF_HTML[2] since then, which is nice.

-Ted

1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137450#c33
2. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa767917%28v=vs.85%29.aspx