Hallvord R M Steen wrote:
2009/1/20 Jamie Rumbelow <ja...@jamierumbelow.net>:
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.
Determining how one application passes information via the clipboard to
another application seems very much out of scope of HTML. If there was
such a method available, then we could investigate how to obtain the
relevant semantics from the document. But we can't do that until there
is some clipboard format available for this purpose that other
applications can understand.
I doubt that it would be possible to create some generic format that
would be suitable for such a wide range of use cases. For an address
book application, the most sensible approach would be to add a vCard
format (text/directory;profile=vcard) to the clipboard. Given that many
address books already support the vCard file format, it's not such a
stretch to believe that they could read the data in that format from the
clipboard. The problem is getting them to support an import from
clipboard feature.
However, other use cases, like pasting a quote into a word processor
complete with bibliographic information, would need an entirely
different format.
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