[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 43202] text-transform shouldn’t apply when copying text

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43202





--- Comment #11 from Ken Newman <wraithkenny at live.com>  2013-02-26 17:42:39 PST ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> > I won't underestimate the users intelligence or ability to learn from experience.
> 
> Again, there would be no way to know at copying time whether the case would be preserved or not. I appreciate that this is not the case for you when you are copying text from a website you designed yourself, or when you are frequently copying text from the same site, but it's hardly the common case.

I "appreciate" the tone of your response which is condescending. 

> What a user would be able to learn from experience in normal scenario is that text copying works erratically, and the computer cannot be trusted.
> 
> > This shows that the clipboard is capable of preserving this information separately. It's been done.
> 
> This is not something to argue about. If you want to study the inner workings of pasteboard, empirical testing will likely be confusing. You can read Apple's documentation about pasteboard flavors, and/or use an application like Pasteboad Peeker or Pasteboard Inspector to see what is actually inside a pasteboard.

A popular browser figured out how to not alter the content while preserving the styles for pasting.

> FWIW, I cannot replicate your results with OS X 10.8.2 and my own test case, but I don't think that this is important in the context of this bug.

If you weren't able to replicate my results, try downloading FireFox first. 

Pasting text-transfromed text into the body of Mac Mail (for example) should appear transformed, and pasting it into the subject line shouldn't.

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