[whatwg] Expose event.dataTransfer.files accessor to allow file drag and drop

• From: Noel Gordon <noel.gordon@gmail.com>
• Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:57:08 +1000
• Message-ID: <ea7726300908100557w30c12059q37b3455e14d385d7@mail.gmail.com>

> PROPOSAL
>
> When the user drags-and-drops files onto a web page, we should expose
> those files to the page via a "files" accessor on the dataTransfer
> property of the event object.  This feature is consistent with HTML
> 5's security model for drag and drop.

I wasn't clear on this part -- how is the proposal consistent with the HTML5
drag drop security model?

~noel

Received on Monday, 10 August 2009 05:57:08 UTC