Sure, I don't see why not - if you include a URL in the drag data, the
drop target can dispatch an AJAX request to grab more information
about the resource.
S
On 19 Aug 2009, at 19:15, Story Henry wrote:
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> On 19 Aug 2009, at 19:42, Scott Wilson wrote:
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>> We can already do this using HTML 5 in FF 3.5.
>>
>> See: http://zope.cetis.ac.uk/members/scott/blogview?entry=20090624222327
>> and: http://zope.cetis.ac.uk/members/scott/blogview?entry=20090623135357
>>
>> (I didn't use the native microdata feature for this, but could
>> easily have done)
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> Very nice. I added those two articles to the wiki. (perhaps that's
> not the place to do this? Seems useful for the moment at least.)
>
> It looks like this should enable Universal Drag and Drop too: ie the
> passing by reference (URI/URL) of a resource, which on GET describes
> itself. Is that correct?
>
> Henry
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>> S
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