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I recently had a very simple request… soooo simple: our user just wishes to copy the formula from Mathematica (which can copy it in MathML) and paste it on something that does web.

I just went around and tried… SeaMonkey should support that in editor and reader: copy a piece of HTML with MathML and paste it, didn’t even work… my 1/x became a place full of nbsps in three lines!

Recently, Bob Matthews posted a mathtype trick, something that was not new to me, but something that struck me this time: you can, now, copy-and-paste from Wikipedia, shown in a current browser, into MathType (so into Word or PowerPoint).

A new draft of MathML-3 has just come out. It has a bunch of good maturations. But it also has a very nice new section on clipboard support which could generalize.

… is finally working… I’m pretty proud of it… undoubtedly, it’s the way to stimulate discovery of math input.

This page attempts to recollect a large amount of pointers to specifications, articles, API-documents, and attempts that related to the clipboard and more generally to user-initiated transfers, such as copy-and-paste or drag-and-drop as we know them in common desktop environments.

It comes as an attempt to clarify a few ideas in order to propose sensible copy-and-paste facilities that web-page scripts could influence.