> > I already had issues copying text from a browser window to a text > > form > > in another window... it embedded links without showing, so I ended > > up > > posting <a href="foo"><a href="bar>... > > What application were you pasting into? I just > copied some formatted text from Epiphany, then > pasted it into both gedit and Pidgin. In gedit, > I just got a plain-text version; in Pidgin I got > formatted text.
Neh, that was in IE in XP for a change, but that was on a site that had a form that handled the formated paste (I really wonder how though). > I strongly suspect that your browser offers a plain > text target. The application you pasted into must > have selected HTML, even though it doesn't really > understand it. (Some might consider this a feature > in, e.g., a text editor, where you might be editing > HTML source.) It *did* understand it. It just inserted it formated, except I never seen that before so I thought it pasted plain text. I think the link didn't appear as such though. I think it was on http://ubix.org/ but that was long ago. The windows clipboard also has the ability to support multiple formats AFAIK, not distinguished by mimes, but some other enum. > Well, you need a parser one way or another. It seems > more likely that an XML parser will already be loaded > than, say, an RTF parser. And ODF leaves you needing > an XML parser anyway, so (X)HTML is certainly no worse. > > For simple stuff, GTK+ applications could probably just > use GMarkup without much effort. But we'd never reach > the uptake of HTML, so I don't think it's worth it. Don't know enough about GTK to tell. > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data:_URI_scheme > > > > Ah yes, that one, but it shouldn't be used for big stuff, it might > > overflow buffers. > > I suppose it might, in poorly written applications. > Applications like Gnumeric and the GIMP put massive > amounts of stuff on the clipboard as it is. When > you have a lot of data, you've just got to accept > that big stuff is on the clipboard. No I mean inside data: urls. The problem is not the clipboard itself but what the resulting app will do with it. Usual apps have a limit on the url length, like 1024 or 4k or whatever. So embedding a bmp this way won't work if the app puts the url in such a buffer :) François. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
