2009/1/20 Jamie Rumbelow <[email protected]>: > I think that the already available solution to your problem are Microformats > - you are essentially embedding metadata, semantically in HTML.
Of course, but I think your comment misses half of the proposed solution.. namely what format the UA puts the information on the clipboard in. If you say microformats is the solution, I assume you mean UAs should put HTML fragments with microformat-type attributes and values (mainly class) on the clipboard as text/html, and applications that were targetted by a paste operation should have HTML parsers and implement support for specific microformats. Which is why you added: > Beside this, the applicability is rather specific - every application would > need built in support and every website would have to markup the data in a > specific way to support the application's format. > > This could get far too confusing and complicated... It would not necessarily need support from the website - the UA could have some logic to create associated meta data (URL, title, possibly author from <META> tags though that wouldn't be very reliable) for the bibliographic stuff if the page did not contain more specific meta data for this purpose. With Facebook I could write a Facebook application to generate the meta data format - Facebook would not really need to support this. With any other website I could add a User JavaScript or Greasemonkey script that was aware of that site's markup and could extract the information in a site-specific way and make it available to the UA as HTML-embedded meta data.. -- Hallvord R. M. Steen
