Should links be pasted as rich HTML or as plain-text? (when data transfer provides HTML)

[oleq]

📝 Provide a description of the improvement

A follow-up of #6053 (comment).

For example:

1. Go to this fiddle:
2. Copy the URL from the browser address bar (not the one in the textarea).
3. Paste it inside CKEditor -> auto-linking DOES happen.
4. Go back to that fiddle:
5. Now copy the URL from the textarea in the results pane.
6. Paste it inside CKEditor -> auto-linking DOES NOT happen.
   We have an inconsistent behavior here. Users may feel that what happens is right but the fact is that CKEditor is having no control of it... and no control is not good.

The fact is that the browser itself is saving in the clipboard the url copied from its address bar in both HTML and plain-text format. The HTML version is something like <a href="url">url</a> and that's the one used by CKEditor. When copying from the textarea, the clipboard has plain-text only.

I believe the proper solution here is not auto-linking in such situation and leave the auto-linking feature to be handled by a future feature that will do so in all cases, no matter if copied from the address bar or a plain-text source.

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Personally, I see nothing wrong with links being pasted as rich text until we have a proper auto-linking feature. For the end-user it's almost always a win if the editor does any content discovery (even if accidental).

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