Ancestors

Written by abadidea on 2025-01-28 at 11:08

Turns out that if you copy text from OneNote and paste it into something that can accept either text or images, it decides you must want a bitmap rendering of your text. I pasted the text into this posting box and got the image, then pasted it again into the image's alt text and got text. Incredible. 0/10 ux, principle of least astonishment maximally violated

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Written by foxyoreos (🔞) on 2025-01-29 at 00:38

@0xabad1dea I.. but.. wha..

til I don't actually have as much understanding of how copy/paste works as I thought - I would have sworn it was up to the receiving program how to handle the copied data.

Or does OneNote just paste an extra image inside of its data format whenever you copy any text? Is this hekin standardized somehow? O_o

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Descendants

Written by foxyoreos (🔞) on 2025-01-29 at 00:40

@0xabad1dea I know if I paste formatted text into a raw text editor, the formatting gets stripped. I always just assumed it was the receiving program doing that, I didn't think the source program could do something like send simultaneous data formats.

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Written by abadidea on 2025-01-29 at 06:01

@foxyoreos it apparently pre-loads the image as one option yes, but the receiving apps take the image because they assume the text option is just, like, the image’s file name as a fallback, because who Does This

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