- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 15:20:08 -0700
- To: Daniel Cheng <dcheng@chromium.org>
- Cc: James Robinson <jamesr@google.com>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Daniel Cheng <dcheng@chromium.org> wrote: > The way drag images work today is we take a snapshot and then hand it off to > the system. To support addElement(), we'd need: > 1. Some way to detect when that element has changed in visual appearance so > we can update the drag image. > 2. Some way to actually update the drag image in the middle of a drag. This > is (as far as I'm aware) impossible with the documented interface for > Windows DnD, and I'm not aware of an undocumented way to do it either. > I'm more concerned about the latter, and while I don't believe it's > impossible to solve, I think it would be difficult to make performant in > case of things like video or other embedded content. Ah, I wasn't aware that we simply handed the image off to the system and let it handle the drag. Ignore my message, then. ~TJ
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