Re: terminals and urls and copying

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From: Yoz Grahame
Subject: Re: terminals and urls and copying
Date: 23:11 on 24 Mar 2004

Luke A. Kanies wrote:
> Well, the cool thing about Be's implementation that really moved it beyond
> just a detail was that the sending and receiving apps could essentially
> agree on the most sophisticated, appropriate format:  Can't take
> text/html? I can do text/plain if necessary, or text/rtf, or whatever.
> You can do more than just image/bitmap?  Great, layered copies would be
> cool.

Um, I may be missing something here, but hasn't Windows been doing that 
for ages?

In Windows, I can copy a bunch of formatted text from a web browser (IE 
or Mozilla, doesn't matter) and paste it into a word processor (Word or 
OpenOffice, doesn't matter) and it retains the formatting.

-- Yoz

There's stuff above here

Luke A. Kanies 21:42 on 24 Mar 2004
- peter (Peter da Silva) 22:37 on 24 Mar 2004
  - Luke A. Kanies 22:50 on 24 Mar 2004
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- Yoz Grahame 23:11 on 24 Mar 2004
  - Ann Barcomb 23:18 on 24 Mar 2004
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