- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:25:11 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Jian Li wrote: > > The HTML 5 spec defines the event-based drag-and-drop mechanism that > could cross the browser boundary. If a draggable element contains a URL, > dragging it out of the browser will only copy the URL value. However, in > some scenarios, we really want to download the data file from the > specified URL, instead of copying the value. Here we propose a way to > allow dragging a virtual file denoted by an URL out of the browser > boundary. I haven't added this to HTML5, since we've only just gotten as far as getting drag and drop of files _in_ to HTML. However, I've noted this for a future version. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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