Mercury Editor - Paste as HTML

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Okay, dumb question here. I downloaded Mercury Editor because I was
curious what "paste as HTML" meant. I'm still no closer to figuring out
what it means, or if it's something I can use. Could someone help me out
here?!
 
jason said:
Okay, dumb question here. I downloaded Mercury Editor because I was
curious what "paste as HTML" meant. I'm still no closer to figuring out
what it means, or if it's something I can use. Could someone help me out
here?!
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The copy-from locale is web browser view. The paste-as is the raw html
markup.

Say you're viewing online web pages. And have loaded into your browser[*]
a page where you only want one part. For example, an article, without all
the surrounding tables that crowd things up with all their debris. You copy
that selection. Then in Mercury, use "Paste as HTML." Result is that you
preserve only your selection, with its essential formatting intact.

Another use would be in regular authoring. Viewing the page you're working
on in browser mode, and then being able "visually" to copy what you want
for transfer to another html document (instead of getting out the magnifying
glass to read through all the code details).


.. . .

[*] The web browser you use has to support the HTML clipboard format.
Anything from the MSIE family has the feature. Most/all of the minor
independents do not. Mozilla, maybe it depends on which one? For ex,
Kmeleon doesn't have it; yet I read that the old Netscape 4x did.
 
omega said:
Say you're viewing online web pages. And have loaded into your
browser[*] a page where you only want one part. For example, an
article, without all the surrounding tables that crowd things up with
all their debris. You copy that selection. Then in Mercury, use "Paste
as HTML." Result is that you preserve only your selection, with its
essential formatting intact.
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Cool. Thanks for the explanation. (Works great in Mozilla 1.3.)

On that basis alone, Mercury Editor is a definite keeper.
 
jason said:
omega said:
Say you're viewing online web pages. And have loaded into your
browser[*] a page where you only want one part. For example, an
article, without all the surrounding tables that crowd things up with
all their debris. You copy that selection. Then in Mercury, use "Paste
as HTML." Result is that you preserve only your selection, with its
essential formatting intact.
Click to expand...

Cool. Thanks for the explanation. (Works great in Mozilla 1.3.)
Click to expand...

I appreciate your info that Mozilla 1.3 supports the HTML clipboard format.
When I'd tested some browsers, all I'd done for a look into the Mozilla
family, was try KMeleon. And found no success there. Now that you've posted
about Mozilla, I tried KMeleon again. I then realized that in my test, I'd
made a mistake - had used the "copy text" function, not regular "copy."

So good to learn that the paste-from source, for the HTML, is not restricted
to the MSIE-based browsers, but also works well in the active Mozilla family.
On that basis alone, Mercury Editor is a definite keeper.
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Now that you've brought in Mozilla, I might one day start wondering about
possibilities of a macro add-in, where you could call up from the Moz
interface a command, to do the "paste as html" keystroke into Mercury (w
whichever other commands appropriate)...
 
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