- From: Story Henry <henry.story@bblfish.net>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:24:09 +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 23:45, Scott Wilson wrote: > Currently not much happens in drag events that go outside the > browser in FF 3.5, but this is planned in the spec - see section > 7.9.4.2 in http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/editing.html > So at the very least you should be able to handle the main drag data > transfer types supported by the OS, which are typically Text, URL, > and File. (Whether browsers will also try and construct a custom > bytearray object for application-specific data is less certain.) > > But we'll have to wait a few browser updates to try this one. Thanks I have updated http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/wiki/UserStories/DragAndDrop with a link to that section of the spec and to this post. Henry > -S > > On 19 Aug 2009, at 22:02, Story Henry wrote: > >> >> >> 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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