- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:29:07 +0200
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:15:27 +0200, Daniel Cheng <dcheng at chromium.org>
wrote:
> Sorry, I'm using "properties" as a generic term for different types of
> data that might be set in a drag. A lot of file managers try to be
> helpful and
> populate alternative metadata for a file. Some of this metadata contains
> file system paths. If the web dragging clipboard mirrors the native
> dragging clipboard, then the metadata will be visible to web apps. In
> this example, if you were on Linux with my patch, you could call
> event.dataTransfer.getData("x-special/gnome-icon-list") while handling a
> drop and the returned string would contain the file system path.
It seems wrong to expose it in a way native to a particular operating
system so it seems better to filter it out for now even if that is more
work. We should keep web platform APIs OS-independent.
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Anne van Kesteren
http://annevankesteren.nl/
Received on Tuesday, 19 October 2010 02:29:07 UTC