[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 124391] text/rtf clipboard data is empty

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124391

--- Comment #1 from Andrew Herron <andrew.herron at ephox.com> ---
This bug impacts the ability of our two widely used HTML editors (http://textbox.io and http://tinymce.com) to import content from Microsoft Word, a very popular feature among our customers. Textbox.io is in the process of being deployed to hundreds of thousands of IBM users. TinyMCE is very well known as the default Wordpress editor and sees wide use in other markets as well.

This bug is the reason our editors currently require Flash, and with the recent talk of turning off Flash by default we’ve been (unsuccessfully) trying to find a contractor to help us implement this and contribute the code. Now that we know it’s happening in Safari 10, we’d _really_ like to get this looked at. We successfully sponsored the same change in Firefox last year: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=938991

We need RTF because when content with images is pasted from Microsoft Word it includes references to those images in a temp folder on the local file system. The files can’t be read in JavaScript, but the binary contents are also contained within the text/rtf format on the clipboard.  Due to this bug we have been forced to use a small Flash object to read the RTF contents from the clipboard and gain access to the image data.

We have also logged this issue with Chrome:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=317807

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