<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Daniel Cheng wrote:<br>
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> I think files have always been a special case and should continue to be<br>
> handled that way. I don't think there's any platform pasteboard that<br>
> supports multiple items of one non-file type, so it'd make the most<br>
> sense to make it a 1:1 mapping from types to data.<br>
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Currently the new DataTransferItems API doesn't enforce the limit of one<br>
"string" item per type. Should it?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>What happens if a page were to add multiple string items of "text/plain"? How would that translate if dragging to a native app? There's also some implementation concerns here--it'd be harder/require more memory to preserve multiple strings of the same type when dragging things within a page.</div>
<div>(If/when Blob support is added, the same comments generally apply)</div><div><br></div><div>Daniel</div></div>