Interviewed by CNN on 02/08/2013 18:28, Paul B. Gallagher told the world: > hawker wrote: > >> No I have a problem that the way SeaMonkey takes clipboard data from >> an MS product does not work with all e-mail clients and that SeaMonkey >> WYSIWYG is not working correctly under the hood. I'm sure if I went >> from Word to Outlook directly it would work fine. It is SeaMonkey >> that seems to mangle it. This is a SeaMonkey issue not MS. My guess >> is it is a Clipboard parsing problem in SeaMonkey. > > Probably not. SeaMonkey is probably being too obedient and capturing all > the garbage codes Word supplies instead of stripping them out. For > example, I tried pasting one sentence from a Word 2010 document into an > HTML composition window in SeaMonkey, and I got this: > > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; > charset=ISO-8859-1"> > <p class="MsoBodyText">The body always operates as an integrated > mechanism, and “forms” > behavioral or motor acts in strict compliance with the conditions > in which it > is placed.<o:p></o:p></p> > followed by 423 more lines of code containing 20,044 characters > (including spaces). Yes, that's 20 thousand characters, not 20! > > The sentence itself was well-formed; the only change was that the curly > quotes were rendered as HTML character entities, which is not a problem. >
I confirm this behavior. I started with a *blank* Word document. I typed *one* word in it, with default formatting. I copied that word and pasted it into a new Seamonkey HTML-formatted message. Then I saved the message and looked at the source code. Surprise, surprise: that one word turned into 20 kb of garbage. And it's easy to tell that the garbage originated in Word, because, well, things like <o:> elements (nonstandard), classes named "Mso"-something (created by Word) and conditional comments (another nonstandard, Microsoft-only technology) What I think is happening... 1. Word places a lot of proprietary garbage on the clipboard yet tags it as "HTML" 2. Thunderbird/Seamonkey believes the tag and accepts the paste "as is." 3. It probably tweaks the content a little in order to mesh with the rest of the HTML-formatted message. 4. Most non-MS mail clients ignore the proprietary garbage and render the message the same as the Seamonkey-user sender intended. 5. Outlook, however, attempts to interpret those remains of the proprietary garbage and fails horribly The only way I see for fixing it from the Mozilla end would be to add code for detecting MS proprietary garbage in the clipboard and run it through a sanitizer (something like HTMLtidy with the -word2000 option) to clean it up. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my VAX. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.17 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
