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Cross-platform formats for drag-and-drop/clipboard

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cross-platform-clipboard-fmts.md

Wayland/X11

All formats supported (arbitrary MIME type)

macOS

URL
Color
File contents (for example, a file handle)
File URL (i.e. a path)
Find panel search options
Font
Html
Multiple text selection (i.e. array of strings)
PDF
PNG
RTF
RTFD
Ruler
Audio (supported formats only given by this outdated documentation, but seems to be transferred using NSAudio)
Plaintext
TSV
Find panel metadata property list
TIFF

Windows

Built-in

Application URI
BMP
HTML
RTF
Iterator of IStorageItem (i.e. array of paths plus file metadata)
Plaintext
URL (i.e. http:///https:// URI)

String-based but standardised

Plaintext
BMP
BMPv5
.dif
Enhanced metafile
Locale
OEM Text
Pen data
RIFF (audio format)
Symlink
TIFF
WAV

Documentation (DataPackage) Documentation (StandardDataFormats)

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