[whatwg] more drag/drop feedback

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Thomas Broyer <t.broyer at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Neil Deakin wrote:
> > We have a need to be able to support both dragging multiple items, as
> well
> > as dragging non-string data, for instance dragging a set of files as a
> set
> > of File objects (see http://www.w3.org/TR/file-upload/) from the file
> system
> > onto a page.
>
> That would be new data formats.
> That's how Adobe AIR solved the problem. They added a Bitmap and File
> list data formats, for which getData returns AIR-specific objets (a
> BitmapData and an array of File objects respectively)
>
> http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AIR/1.1/jslr/flash/desktop/ClipboardFormats.html
> http://livedocs.adobe.com/air/1/devappshtml/DragAndDrop_2.html#1048911


Creating a new data format for each kind of collection seems suboptimal. And
it breaks completely if you want heterogeneous collections.

Rob
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