On 02/08/2012 18:56, Chris Young wrote: >> The list or text_runs is then committed as a separate object along with >> the plain/text item in the clipboard, which applications like StyledEdit >> can use. > > Shame the text styles in IFF FTXT are a load of rubbish/hardly > supported anywhere (the F stands for "formatted", but I've only ever > seen it used for plain text). > > There was some discussion recently about new text style chunks. If > it's possible to get the style info out of NetSurf it might be worth > me defining and submitting my own chunk. > > I know BeOS was inspired by AmigaOS, but does it use IFF for the > clipboard or something else?
No, it's a BMessage with different field named after their mime types. The Translation Kit was largely inspired by the datatypes.library though, it started as a contribution named alike actually. François.
