- From: James Graham <jgraham@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:24:16 +0200
- To: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
The current drag and drop API seems to be getting some very negative feedback from authors ([1], [2]). I understand that it has been reverse engineered from the IE6 API with the goal of backwards-compatibility. However the arguments in favour of that approach were considerably stronger in 2005 than they are today. Also, it has been noted [3] that the IE6 implementation is rather crash-prone, so developers are not really free to use this API and expect their content to work in legacy IE. Would people, particularly those who already have an implementation of this API, consider it worthwhile to develop a cleaner alternative before we become overburdened by legacy content (I'm not really sure how much legacy content there is; Phillip Taylor found a lot of "stuff like <body ondragstart='return false'>" but I don't know about legitimate uses. Or walled garden content). [1] http://www.alertdebugging.com/2009/08/16/on-html-5-drag-and-drop/ [2] http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/09/the_html5_drag.html [3] http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1115899732&count=1
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