Re: new form control

On 4/24/07 12:04 PM, "Matthew Ratzloff" <matt@builtfromsource.com> wrote:

> I don't think it should be asynchronous, either (unless scripted to do
> so). But the actual drag-and-drop control would be very useful for
> low-skill users.

You understate its usefulness.
It would be very very very very very very very useful to at least 50% of the
people who I've sat and watched try attach a file to an email. A surprising
number of people I've encountered don't have a clue about file systems,
folders etc. They only know about the desktop. Having to browse for a file
is too much of a hassle for some. I'm sure millions of people would rejoice
when they discover they can just drag an icon from their desktop directly
into a dropbox to attach a file to an e-mail.

I could imagine the drag and drop feature of http://www.panic.com/ would be
easy for anyone to implement if there was a _fully_stylable_ dropbox input
type.

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