Bug 10781

Summary:	REGRESSION: View rich text format (RTF) documents inline
Product:	WebKit	Reporter:	David Kilzer (:ddkilzer) <ddkilzer>
Component:	New Bugs	Assignee:	Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	Normal	CC:	ap, opendarwin
Priority:	P1	Keywords:	Regression
Version:	420+
Hardware:	Mac
OS:	OS X 10.4
URL:	http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/TextIO/Tasks/UsingTextIO.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000845

Description David Kilzer (:ddkilzer) 2006-09-08 04:15:13 PDT

Attachment 10451 [details] was a crash log posted to Bug 10780 in RTF format.  WebKit couldn't render this inline so it had to download it to a file.  I'm lazy.  It would have been nice if the document could have been opened in an NSTextView using the same mechanism that PDF files (or PostScript files--see Bug 3527)  are rendered in PDFViews.

I'm a little concerned about the "creeping featurism" that this bug implies (why not allow ANY type of file to be viewed inline in the browser!), but I thought I'd throw it out for comment.

Comment 1 Alexey Proskuryakov 2006-09-08 05:21:40 PDT

Viewing RTFs works for me in stock 10.4.7 Safari, but not with in TOT WebKit. View Tree shows that it used to be handled by WebTextView.

Comment 2 David Kilzer (:ddkilzer) 2006-09-08 07:51:03 PDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> Viewing RTFs works for me in stock 10.4.7 Safari, but not with in TOT WebKit.
> View Tree shows that it used to be handled by WebTextView.

Support for text/rtf was dropped in Bug 8808 (r14258).

Comment 3 Alexey Proskuryakov 2006-09-16 10:21:03 PDT

I think that this is a very important feature for Safari, but it doesn't necessarily need to be implemented in WebKit - a default plugin would do the trick equally well. Could you please file a Radar bug, too?

Comment 4 Maciej Stachowiak 2006-10-06 03:53:49 PDT

Support for viewing RTF files inline was removed from Safari intentionally.