[whatwg] Drag and drop in HTML5

[Ian Hickson]

On Thu, 5 May 2005, Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen wrote:
> 
> One of the issues here is that there ought to be a way to drag a 
> collection of elements that aren't necessarily siblings in the DOM. 
> Perhaps a way to specify a "drag-group" to say that certain elements 
> considered draggable should be dragged together.
> 
> <foo onclick="
> if( ! this.draggable ){ 
>    this.draggable = true;
>    dragGroup = mailBucket;
>  }else 
>    this.draggable = false;
> " >
> 
>  A DragGroup object would be a sort of nodelist.. Perhaps something 
> like "myDragGroup.add(this);" would be more logical? Or perhaps just 
> assign a specific ID string..?

Do you mean that instead of labelling each draggable element as draggable, 
you would instead add each draggable element to a list?

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