[Bug 19041] New: Add "dragexit" event to the drag-and-drop model

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=19041

           Summary: Add "dragexit" event to the drag-and-drop model
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: major
          Priority: P2
         Component: HTML5 spec
        AssignedTo: dave.null@w3.org
        ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: ian@hixie.ch, mike@w3.org,
                    public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
                    public-html@w3.org, giorgio.liscio@email.it


This was was cloned from bug 11568 as part of operation LATER convergence.
Originally filed: 2010-12-17 11:28:00 +0000
Original reporter: Giorgio <giorgio.liscio@email.it>

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 #0   Giorgio                                         2010-12-17 11:28:15 +0000 
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spec says that when i drag over a new item

first is fired dragenter on the new target
then is fired dragleave on the old target

i think this is wrong because any ancestor element receives as
"last-fired-event" the "dragleave".

that means, for me, "no drag operation is in progress"

in mouseover/mouseout

first is fired mouseout on the old target
then is fired mouseover on the new target

when the event propagates, for example at the body element, i can determine
that the mouse is over my page

with dragleave/dragenter i can not

please read test cases and samples here

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619703
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 #1   Ian 'Hixie' Hickson                             2011-01-11 19:21:00 +0000 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: I agree that it's awkward (you have to track the targets from the
ancestor dragleave event handler to make sure you don't screw it up), but it's
what IE does, and we're just speccing what IE does here. Changing it would risk
breaking pages written to work with IE's drag-and-drop over the last decade or
so.
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 #2   Giorgio                                         2011-01-12 08:39:15 +0000 
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hi Hixie, mozilla supports both dragleave and dragexit (old mozilla's api)

the order is:

dragexit
dragenter
dragleave


its exactly like dragleave, but it is fired before dragenter, why not include
this event too to extend compatibility with mozilla?
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 #3   Giorgio                                         2011-01-12 17:41:57 +0000 
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sorry if i reopen, maybe i need to do this to have comments about include
dragexit too in the spec
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 #4   Ian 'Hixie' Hickson                             2011-02-15 00:08:47 +0000 
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Do you have a testcase demonstrating this? I tried testing it but was
unsuccessful in demonstrating the existence of 'dragexit' events.
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 #5   Giorgio                                         2011-02-15 02:52:14 +0000 
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Created attachment 955
dragexit vs dragleave

sure Hixie, here both events in action
you probably need and it is sure better to run this file in firefox's latest
trunk
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

thank you
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 #6   Giorgio                                         2011-02-15 03:02:16 +0000 
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a note:

i've just tested with both firefox 3.6 and firefox 4 beta

firefox 3.6 does not match the current spec (dragenter is fired after
dragleave)
firefox 4.0 matches the current spec

so
in firefox 3.6 dragexit == dragleave and they are fired both before dragenter

in firefox 4.0 the event order is:

aaa dragexit
bbb dragenter
aaa dragleave
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 #7   Ian 'Hixie' Hickson                             2011-05-03 19:27:40 +0000 
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EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are
satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If
you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please
reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML
Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest
title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue
yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

Status: Partially Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: 

Thanks. Interesting.

I've not added this to the spec yet, but I think we should probably do so in
due course. Before we do so, I'd like to wait to see if we can get all the
other recent additions to this API implemented reliably in all the major
browsers.

If another browser intends to implement 'dragexit' before I've specced it
please let me know and I'll prioritize this.
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 #9   Giorgio                                         2012-06-12 17:12:57 +0000 
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hi hixie, news about this? 

*see the attachment

when you drag over the white paragraph the drag event is still valid because
the dragover bubbles up to #test

but it is impossible to handle contents according to pointer movements, because
of the bad design of events

I think dragenter and dragleave events are totally useless now... but! a
challenge for hackers: try to workaround this, with some code that allows to
move on the white paragraph (coming from the gray area) without losing the
dotted border...

... yeah... it is madness... yeah...

why the standard is what IE does and not what Firefox does?
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 #10  Giorgio                                         2012-06-12 17:14:01 +0000 
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Created attachment 1143
wrong event order
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