Le 18-juin-10 à 12:55, Chris Lilley a écrit :
PL> Could I suggest to add in this registration clipboard format names as PL> part of the additional information so that applications use them PL> consistently? Happy do do so - could you point to documentation on this so I can read up?
There's no official place that I know of. For UTIs, URLs have been a bit changing at Apple, the Wikipedia page seems the most faithful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Type_Identifier and a page at Apple is: http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptu... For Windows the only pages I know of are: .NET: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.dataformats.aspx C++ http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms632538.aspx I've been vaguely trying to list these at my page: http://eds.activemath.org/en/node/161
Do they require separate registration with some other authority, or is it sufficient to note them here?
From the discussion within the W3C Math Working Group members, it appears that there's no registration methods anymore (people from MicroSoft, Design Science, and MapleSoft among others). One thing I learned the hard way (there was a draft with that error) is that dashes (the minus sign "-") is not allowed in MS clipboard flavor names. Another is that lack of specification gives a broad amount of fancy attempts by just about any implementor. The pages of the platform makers describe how applications register their clipboard types when running or in the application descriptors. As far as I know there's no other thing to do than write this in a spec expected to be read by implementors.
PL> I would suggest the following for uncompressed svg as a first PL> approximation, but maybe there are existing attempts already?
PL> - Windows: "SVG Image" PL> - MacOSX Uniform Type Identifier: org.w3c.svg conforms to public.image PL> and to public.xml
PL> I am doubting that the 4-letter codes are still in use but I may be PL> wrong.
Yes, the old MacOS 4-letter codes are mainly historical at this point, but Apple did allocate them for us (back in 1998) and RFC 4288 (from Dec 2005) seems to ask for them if they exist, so they were included.
Perfect then. paul