Interesting. That seems so "backwards"! I guess maybe the best solution for now is to have people paste it into Outlook and then mail their comment into the system.
It really seems like if we (development community) are going to be writing web apps that have a look and feel of stand alone apps that this is very basic gotta-have functionality. I have explored a couple rich text editors, but found them to be a bit "too much" for what my users want. Maybe something needs to actually be built into the browser (ie, like a firefox plugin) to accept the paste? Margie On Oct 23, 6:31 am, "Jonathan Vanherpe (T & T NV)" <jonat...@tnt.be> wrote: > Margie wrote: > > > I have a web app (front end jquery, backend django) that allows users > > to type commens into a text area. My users are asking for the ability > > to cut and paste images into their comments. They want to use an > > windows app called mwsnap to basically snap images from their desktop, > > then ctrl-v to copy the image into my django app. Does anyone know > > what sort of client side support is needed to do this? I am fairly > > adept at jquery/javascript, but haven't seen anything like this though > > it does seem like a very reasonable request since they are certainly > > able to cut and paste into Outlook this way. However, when I try to > > cut and paste this way into yahoo mail or gmail it doesn't work, so > > perhaps this is a hard thing to do in a web app. Can anyone give me a > > pointer on how this could be done or if it can be done? > > > Thanks, > > > Margie > > That doesn't work on the web. The best thing you can do is use something > like CKeditor and a seperate image upload system that handles rescaling > of images and stuff. > > Maybe you could do this with a Java applet (that's Java, not > Javascript), but I haven't seen anything like that anywhere so far. > > Jonathan > -- > Jonathan Vanherpe - Tallieu & Tallieu NV - jonat...@tnt.be
