Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> schrieb am Mo., 11. Mai 2020, 14:23:

> > There are cases where the target actually supports multiple
> formats/types and lets the user choose. Like the paste as plain text vs
> rich text example.
>
> I think that I have lazy (or deferred) evaluation in mind. The drag source
> puts a passenger into the transfer morph and adds some rules on how to
> convert that passenger into other objects. The drop target then chooses the
> kind of representation, triggering conversion transparently. Yes, MIME
> types can serve as a common protocol between source and target.
>

That sounds alright.

Hmm...on second thought ... it does not matter whether this conversion is
> deferred or not.
>

Maybe not here, but if there are many formats or complex content, eager
conversion could be costly.


> The inspector would store its field behind a special MIME type like
> "application/inspector-field" as well as "object/generic" (?) and maybe
> even "text/plain". The last option would free the target from having to
> decide whether to call #asString or #printString on "object/generic". :-)
>

Well if Squeak had named interfaces or protocols had names, you could use
them. :-)
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