[webkit-dev] Heads up: changing default for selectionIncludesAltImageText

[James Craig]

I wanted to give the list a heads up because the related issue was somewhat controversial last time. 

To give some context, this is about whether image alt text should be included in the plain text pasteboard. Most everyone is of the opinion that it should, but several of us feel that it should be delimited to some degree so that it's more clear this came from an image and was not originally presented as plain text.

Here is the original thread and bug that resulted in this feature being implemented but left disabled by default:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11200

The discussion also resulted in an HTML defect filed to clarify this portion of the spec.
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21403

While I still feel there is room to explore some delimiting options, the HTML spec has since been updated to be less ambiguous in this area, and the other main browsers support the behavior, so I think it's reasonable to enable it by default until such time as 1) this is shown to be problematic, or 2) a better solution is proposed.

Here's the new bug for the settings change.
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115283