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Re: drag'n'drop is grab'n'drop for non-visual users

From: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:46:53 +1100
To: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, "Sean Hayes" <Sean.Hayes@microsoft.com>
Cc: "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>, "wai-xtech@w3.org" <wai-xtech@w3.org>, "w3c-wai-pf@w3.org" <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>
Message-ID: <op.undbgfr1wxe0ny@widsith.local>

On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:43:49 +1100, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:

>
> On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Sean Hayes wrote:
>>
>> maybe I'm missing something obvious, but how is this different to copy
>> (or cut) and paste?
>
> FWIW, in HTML5 copy-and-paste and drag-and-drop are exposed using the
> exact same set of APIs and events.

And the long-neglected Clipboard Operations specification from the Webapps  
group (which is about to start being active again) takes the same approach.

cheers

Chaals

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