<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Darin Fisher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:darin@chromium.org">darin@chromium.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div>I think there is a good use case for copying a selection of HTML from any web page and pasting that into the rich text editor of a web mail program.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>
I agree, but that case does not degrade badly when you only copy the text, whereas if there is any case where you _don't_ want to copy the images etc., the current behavior makes those use cases impossible.</div><div>
<br></div><div>Note that within Chrome we put in ctrl-shift-v to "paste as plain text" precisely because of issues like this. Most other programs don't have that option though (and even in Chrome it's hard to discover).</div>
<div><br></div><div>PK</div></div>