1256235 - Rich text copy/paste does not preserve enough formatting between Google docs documents

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 860857

(Core :: DOM: Serializers, defect)

Description

[Julien Wajsberg [:julienw]]

STR:
1. Open https://docs.google.com/document/d/129bP4zZPOxCNQzxmxnJPO8xTsyAi4ueerYuyO_S4VXE/edit?usp=sharing
(Note: this page contains a table with same-width columns, only one of which has content; and an unordered list with custom bullets)

2. select everything (click in the document, press Ctrl+A), then copy (Ctrl+C)

3. open another google docs document in a different tab.

4. paste what you just copied (Ctrl+V) in that document.

=> notice some formatting were lost: columns are not same-width anymore, the list lost its custom bullets.

Comment 1

[Julien Wajsberg [:julienw]]

Attachment: PDF rendition for the source document

Comment 2

[Julien Wajsberg [:julienw]]

Attachment: PDF rendition for the target document

Comment 3

[Julien Wajsberg [:julienw]]

Some additional notes:

1. The STR works fine in Google Chrome.
2. I did the STR on Linux here, but to reproduce an issue I saw on someone else's windows computer. I couldn't check whether this STR reproduces on Windows.
3. Copy/pasting inside the same document works fine in Firefox.
4. Copy/pasting between a Google Document in Google Chrome and a Google Document in Firefox (either as a source or target) triggers the same issue I describe here.

Comment 4

[Julien Wajsberg [:julienw]]

I just tried copy from Google Docs to a simple contenteditable zone [1], I get the same result as this bug, both in Chrome and Firefox.

So maybe it's a WebCompat bug instead ?

[1] data:text/html,<div contenteditable=true style="min-height: 100px; border: 1px solid black">

Comment 5

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

My best guess is that G Docs in Chrome writes some custom clipboard format with more formatting data. If that's correct this is going to be a dup of bug 860857

Comment 6

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

It does write a number of entries into a "Chromium Web Custom MIME Data Format" clipboard part. One of the custom types is an application/x-vnd.google-docs-document-slice-clipwrapped - this is probably where the extra formatting survives..

Comment 7

[Julien Wajsberg [:julienw]]

Yeah, this seems like this, thanks.

I've seen users going away from Firefox to Chrome just because of this. :(