- From: Braden McDaniel <braden@endoframe.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 14:37:41 -0500
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Cc: Mikko Rantalainen <mira@cc.jyu.fi>, Daniel Glazman <glazman@netscape.com>, www-html@w3.org
Quoting Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>: > > > You cannot copy and paste *content with the styling information only* if > > the target medium is sematic one, like (X)HTML. Period. > > While this may be what you would like to be the case, in the real world (of > wysiwyg HTML editors, which you probably think cannot exist either) this > situation is not necessarily acceptable. You _do_ want to be able to copy a > paragraph out of an HTML e-mail and into a document you're writing and > (optionally) preserve the style. Only if "you" are someone who wants to use HTML as a stylistic formatting language, rather than semantic markup; in which case I think it's clear that XHTML 2.0 in not directed at you. What's good for the Web isn't necessarily good for e-mail. What's good for the Web is even less likely to be good for an intermediate clipboard format. -- Braden McDaniel e-mail: <braden@endoframe.com> <http://endoframe.com> Jabber: <braden@jabber.org>
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