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It makes a lot more sense when you consider copying from a document then pasting in another location. If you copy a header you want it to stay a header, if you
by kevincox 2y ago
It makes a lot more sense when you consider copying from a document then pasting in another location. If you copy a header you want it to stay a header, if you copy coloured text you may expect it to be coloured.
It makes a lot less sense when pasting from other locations. Especially if for example you copy one sentence of a webpage that uses a specific font throughout, you are likely not expecting that font to be preserved, you weren't even thinking about it.
So probably they went for consistency, which ended up being the wrong choice. At the end of the day there are cases for both. Adding heuristics all day ends up confusing for the user so picking a default is hard.
- adammarples 2y agoThere are certainly cases for both. The default case should be the simple one that you want most of the time, ie. don't drag formatting from one document to another, just drag the information.
- mikhailfranco 2y agoThere may be trade-offs and arguments on many sides, but the resolution is obvious and should be universal: Hippocratic Defaults: First Do No Harm. Principle Of Least Astonishment (POLA). Provide all possible damage and astonishment in the right-mouse pop-up. Caveat Clickor.