1285715 - copy to clipboard should contain list decorators

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Serializers, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Julian Reschke]

When copy&pasting list contents (such as from <ol>) into an application that expects text/plain content (say Thunderbird plain text email), list decorators are lost.

See related discussion in <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-editing-tf/2016Jul/0000.html>. In <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-editing-tf/2016Jul/0004.html>, Travis points out that this is indeed the case in Microsoft browsers (verified).

Comment 1

[Andrew Overholt [:overholt]]

Masayuki, what do you think about this request?

Comment 2

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)(away 4/27 - 5/6)]

I like the suggested behavior better. But I don't know if it's possible to handle CSS counter from plain text serializer... For example,

1. item1
2. item2
3. item3

If user selects 2 and 3 and copy it, the clipboard text should be:

2. item2
3. item3

not:

1. item2
2. item3

Comment 3

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)(away 4/27 - 5/6)]

IE works perfectly. Neither Chrome nor Edge works.

Here is some testcases: https://jsfiddle.net/d_toybox/bymcfh8u/

Comment 5

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

Mass bug change to replace various 'parity' whiteboard flags with the new canonical keywords. (See bug 1443764 comment 13.)