http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16800
seems to discuss its creation, and have links to further discussion, so you can see why the people who added it did so.
The point is that it was added to Mozilla purposefully as a feature, so it's not really a bug. Whether it's a useful feature is a question of personal preference. In general though, it's not true that plain text equals no formatting--paragraph divisions and new lines, for example, are formatting, as is the offsetting of titles by placing them on their own lines and/or using capital letters. People make plain text lists all the time by putting each item on a line and using - or * as a form of bullet, and they add *emphasis* using marker symbols.
If you want to capture text with no formatting, I believe copying and pasting will strip out all, or almost all, but the actual text.
-Stuart
On Sep 18, 2004, at 12:13 PM, David Fedoruk wrote:
So it seems overall to be a feature, as opposed to a bug--there's no question that it's by design and not just random.
What is the purpose of this "feature"? I was trying to use Save As Plain Text to grab the contents of a job posting without all the other formating.
df
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