Closed Bug 9367 Opened 26 years ago Closed 26 years ago

[blocker]Clipboard doesn't support HTML correctly

Categories

(Core :: XUL, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
XUL
Platform:
x86
Windows NT
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: rods, Assigned: rods)

Details

nsClipboard on windows does return HTML content correctly from the native clipboard. Akkana needs this.
Added akkana to cc list
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 26 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
I fixed it
rod, i don't know how to verify this. is there some testcase i should try out? on build 1999-07-13-10-M8 on NT4.0 sp4, i tried to copy html from navigator4/5, ender, and ie4 and every time i pasted into ender, i either got results in ascii text or ascii html, but no rendered html. when i copied three td cells from one of the tables in the default editor page, this is what Edit|Paste gave me: <!-- This page was created by the Gecko output system. --> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <tr> <td>cell 4 </td><td>cell 5 </td><td>cell 5 </td></tr> is this a totally different bug?
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
If you're getting <tr> and <td> at all, you're getting html, and the problem may be that you're not pasting the <table> tag so maybe the table rows and cells aren't showing up. Try pasting a whole table, or something other than a table, to see if html shows up. But meanwhile, I get a crash when I try to paste html from the 5.0 browser to 5.0 ender. I've talked to Rod about this, and it sounds like he has a fix in his tree which will go in when the tree finally reopens (soon, I hope). Reopening until then.
Resolution: FIXED → ---
yeah, i tried to copy a whole table too, and i got the same effect.
As far as I know there was never a require to be able to paste HTML from either Nav 4.0 or IE. Basically we are not recognizing their clipboard formats. When can do that, it was just never asked for or scheduled.
It was always my understanding that one of the main points of pasting html was so that we could get html from other apps. Of course we should use standard clipboard formats and recognize pastes from other apps -- why on earth not, if we're already doing all the work to handle paste html in the first place? BTW, re my comment earlier about crashing on pasting html: html paste works fine for me now on Linux. Haven't checked pasting from other apps, because Pav and I haven't been able to find any other Linux apps that put html on the clipboard (NS 4.6 doesn't) but the search continues.
I think recognizing other app's HTML clipboard format and doing something with it, is a different bug. It should be assigned to XPToolikit, not me. I am not signed up to do that work anymore. As far as I can tell, this bug needs to be closed.
Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 26 years ago → 26 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
ok, marking verified.
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