Issue 109615 - Paste "HTML without comments" not available on Unix
Summary: Paste "HTML without comments" not available on Unix
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 3.1.1
Hardware: All Unix, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Reported: 2010-02-25 22:00 UTC by gleppert
Modified: 2017-05-20 11:17 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Strange automatic notes at webpage import (23.71 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2010-02-25 22:02 UTC, gleppert 		no flags Details
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Description gleppert 2010-02-25 22:00:21 UTC 
Referring to the discussion here:
http://techmodblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/notes2-progress.html?showComment=1266946468240#c3448536035538456583,
I would like to propose this as enhancement to the Notes2 functionality:

Copying web pages to a Writer document sometimes results in the creation of many
automatic notes in that document. In above cited discussion it was mentioned
that this was a feature and it was proposed to hidden it by default. Please
deactivate this "feature" for the normal users, because these usually want to
copy the content of the webpages, but would not like to see HTML code in
automatically created notes.

Example: 
Please copy the webpage of above mentioned link with CTRL-A and CTRL-C into a
newly created Writer document. 
Result:
Not only the content of the webpage is shown, but also a note containing
"google_ad_section_start(name=default)". Please see the attachment to this issue.
Since this meta-information is not important to most users, please hide such
automatically created notes.

Thanks.
Comment 1 gleppert 2010-02-25 22:02:04 UTC 
Created attachment 68028 [details]
Strange automatic notes at webpage import
Comment 2 michael.ruess 2010-02-26 06:25:08 UTC 
All HTML comments are pasted as Writer's comments - this must be in order not to
lose these and is desired by the majority of users to have this as default.
In the "Paste special" options (or in the "Paste" dropdown button in the main
toolbar) you have the option to paste as "HTML without comments".
Comment 3 michael.ruess 2010-02-26 06:56:26 UTC 
Closed.
Comment 4 gleppert 2010-02-26 08:16:56 UTC 
I think this issue was closed a bit too quick for two reasons:

1.
In OpenOffice 3.1.1 there is no option in Paste special for "HTML without
comments". There are only "HTML" (with comments) and "Unformatted text".

2.
I think it is important that those HTML information is not lost, o.k. But I
can't imagine of any user who likes tens of visible comments in the text
document after copying a webpage into it. This seemed to me like an annoying bug
in the first place. If possible, please hide these comments and make them not
visible.
Comment 5 michael.ruess 2010-02-26 10:00:16 UTC 
The fact, that you do not get the option "HTML without comments" made me confuse
- but I now found out, that this does not seem to work on Unix systems... More
an defect than an RFE.
Comment 6 michael.ruess 2010-02-26 10:02:14 UTC 
MRU->OS: when copying content e.g. from FireFox and using "Paste special", one
will get the option "HTML without comments". But this only works on Windows - on
Unix systems this is missing in Writer. I checked this on Solaris, SUSE and ubuntu.
Comment 7 Marcus 2017-05-20 11:17:32 UTC 
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".