Re: Why is NetSurf so fussy?

On 21 Sep 2014, Richard Porter <ricp@minijem.plus.com> wrote:
> On 20 Sep 2014 Tony Moore wrote:
> > On 20 Sep 2014, Richard Porter <ricp@minijem.plus.com> wrote:
>
> > > One really annoying feature of NetSurf (RO front end) is that it
> > > won't let you paste text from an html file into the URL field. ...
>
> > It _isn't_ necessary, when using StongED to view the HTML source.
> > Press f8 to view the source, select the URL, press ctrl-shft-c to
> > copy it to the clipboard, click in the NS URL field (or Open URL
> > window), press ctrl-v to paste the URL. Perhaps I've misunderstood
> > the problem?
>
> The problem is that Copy saves the file type of the file you are
> copying from to the clipboard, and Paste presents that file type to
> the application you are pasting into. NetSurf doesn't accept plain
> text pasted from a file that isn't type Text (fff). This restriction
> seems to be as unnecessary as it is frustrating.

As said above, here there is _no_ problem in pasting the URL from the
clipboard (RO 6.20, NS 2107, SE 4.69). Which application are you using
to view the NS HTML source?

Tony