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> > > 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. > > Other than X11, doesn't everyone do this? > Not that I can tell. If I select text in a web browser, does it ever get > pasted as anything other than plain text? RTF or html or anything? I > know that apps can paste sophisticated stuff to themselves, but can they > to anything else? In Windows apps tend to be too bloody sophisticated about how much crap they're going to paste, to the point where you get a COM object containing a complete copy of your document and marshalled parameters to tell Visio or Excel or whatever to display just this bit of it in a Word document. But the same stuff pasted into Textpad is just text if text is available. I don't know if your trick would work from IE, I don't use Internet Exploder. In the Mac you've been able to do the equivalent since aproximately forever, and I've had to get myself a REAL text-only-but-still-UTF-8 editor to keep chunks of HTML pasted into the editor from turning into RTF. Your browser example works from Safari. (as you can tell, this feature is not without its own hateful aspects)There's stuff above here
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