RE: drag'n'drop is grab'n'drop for non-visual users from Ian Hickson on 2009-01-05 (wai-xtech@w3.org from January 2009)

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 22:43:49 +0000 (UTC)
To: Sean Hayes <Sean.Hayes@microsoft.com>
Cc: "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>, "wai-xtech@w3.org" <wai-xtech@w3.org>, "w3c-wai-pf@w3.org" <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0901052243210.10974@hixie.dreamhostps.com>

On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Sean Hayes wrote:
> 
> maybe I'm missing something obvious, but how is this different to copy 
> (or cut) and paste?

FWIW, in HTML5 copy-and-paste and drag-and-drop are exposed using the 
exact same set of APIs and events.

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