- From: Story Henry <henry.story@bblfish.net>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:02:04 +0200
- To: Scott Wilson <scott.bradley.wilson@gmail.com>
- Cc: Alexandre Passant <alexandre.passant@deri.org>, public-xg-socialweb@w3.org
On 19 Aug 2009, at 20:39, Scott Wilson wrote: > 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. Has anyone tried the inverse? I mean starting a drag operation from a thick client running on the desktop - (written in java or flash for example ) and dropping it onto an HTML5 browser such as firefox? If it works do you have any pointers? I'd like to try this. Henry > S > > On 19 Aug 2009, at 19:15, Story Henry wrote: > >> >> On 19 Aug 2009, at 19:42, Scott Wilson wrote: >> >>> 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) >> >> 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 >> >> >>> S >> >
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