On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Pam Greene <p...@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Peter Kasting <pkast...@google.com>wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Darin Fisher <da...@chromium.org> wrote: >> >>> I think there is a good use case for copying a selection of HTML from any >>> web page and pasting that into the rich text editor of a web mail program. >>> >> >> I agree, but that case does not degrade badly when you only copy the >> text, whereas if there is any case where you _don't_ want to copy the images >> etc., the current behavior makes those use cases impossible. >> > > I don't follow this argument. If I want the text, tables, images, etc., > then if "copy" only grabs the text, what I want is impossible. If I only > want the text, at least I can remove the other stuff after pasting: > inconvenient, but possible. I must not understand what you're describing. > No, you understand things OK. My prescription is based on not having a use case for copying the complete rich contents of non-editable areas. If you in fact need to do that, then you need our current behavior. It just makes the opposite use case extraordinarily inconvenient, and my claim is that the opposite use case is the one that actually comes up frequently. (For example, I copy text in a web page to send to people or paste into other documents all the time, but I can't recall the last time I wanted to copy the web page as a web page into my clipboard -- the few times I've wanted the complete content, I've wanted to "Save As Web Page, Complete".) PK
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