- From: <leslie.brown@evidian.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 01:43:35 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
> Nope. At the same time, a user who tries copy-paste from a web page into the > same web page should also get the same effect (things look just like they did). > This is what makes life hard with general generated content... because the > entity providing the clipboard data has no idea where it will get pasted. Agreed. But don't forget that, under Windows at least, you can usually choose between multiple formats (Edit/Paste special). I'm not an implementor and I don't know how the "pasted-into" application decides which is the default format to use when the user "just" pastes, but the following example scenario makes sense to me: - For the "paste as plain text" format, add the numbers or roman numerals or whatever - For the "paste as HTML" format, add the styling information and do NOT add the numbers - And in general, leave out the generated content when the format provides an equivalent mechanism to generate the same effect A "bitmap" format can (surprisingly?) be useful too. I'd never have thought of this if it hadn't been the default format when pasting from Microsoft Excel into Lotus Notes 5 and earlier. Les
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