Discussion: MIME-typing the Document / Document Fragment?

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Working on the copy-paste issues, it occurred to me that in a world dominated by Slate-based rich text editors, it would pose a problem to copy and paste between editors with incompatible schemas.

To that end, I’m opening a discussion on whether a Slate Editor should mark its identity in some way (as sort of MIME type), and that information can be serialized in data-slate-fragment.

[justinweiss]

This was something I had planned to take on after https://github.com/ianstormtaylor/slate/pull/2933, but then 0.50 landed. Since our main implementation is still pre-refactor, upstreaming work hasn’t been a priority.

I haven’t looked into the current state of copy / paste post-refactor, but I don’t think this would be hard to layer on.

[ianstormtaylor]

@justinweiss sounds awesome.

• move getEventTransfer to editor.getEventTransfer and setEventTransfer to editor.setEventTransfer so they have access to editor props, specifically contentType. This also matches what happened with findDOMPoint, etc.

When we move these, let’s rename them to getDOMEventTransfer I think, for clarity and symmetry with the other DOM helpers.