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Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Platform Integration

1,454 bytes added, 20:10, 21 November 2008
Added idea for "smart" clipboard formatting
* On Macbooks, three fingers can be swiped on the trackpad for navigation Back and Forward in Safari and Finder. This provides for very convenient navigation and should be implemented in Firefox also.
 
==Copying text should be smart and copy context-independent html for use in other applications==
Basically - when I copy text of many websites into Open Office, the formatting is often completely different to that which it was in the firefox window. This is often because pages are formatted with css <span> <div> using attributes like class=, etc. When the copied text is put into Open Office, lots of these formatting options won't make any sense - because either the css isn't copied with it, or, many applications don't have the ability to undrestand css.
 
So, what Firefox should actually put on the clipboard is the best rendered html it can that will be formatted in the same way when the data finds it's way into another program.
 
Quick example:
 
# main.css tells all elements of class "interesting" to be in bold.
# index.html uses main.css, and has some text that is of class "interesting" on it's page.
# User looks at the page and the text is a mixture of plain and bold formatted text.
# User copies text to the clipboard.
# Firefox is clever enough to know what the '''final''' formatting of every word and character on the page is, regardless of whether that formatting is originall because of html, css or javascript... and sticks the most sensible html that describes "what you see" onto the clipboard.
# So, finally, when the user pastes the text into a different application, it is formatted in the same way that it was in Firefox.
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