[whatwg] HTML 5 drag and drop feedback

[Ian Hickson]

On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Sebastian Markbåge wrote:
> 
> No browser has implemented the copy/paste part of the spec.

Few parts of the spec are perfectly implemented anywhere today, indeed. 
That's what it'll take years to get to -- that's where the "2022" estimate 
comes from, in fact -- I doubt we'll have two perfect implementations 
before then.


> As for lazy data...
> 
> If the drag/drop is actually a copy/paste, you still have to serialize 
> ALL data. If your script made the assumption that it wouldn't, then that 
> could cause some interesting bloated clipboard. To me, this is just 
> another example of why the copy/paste API should be separate.

I don't see why copy and paste is different than drag and drop here. In 
both cases, you would want to push a promise into the dataTransfer (or its 
analogue) for performance reasons.


> I've also suggested that you allow for lazy loading of data as entire 
> files using: dataTransfer.setRemoteData(type, uri);
> 
> Using a remote URI in the clipboard, that API could lazily load data 
> even after the document is unloaded.
> 
> But I also like the idea of a callback.

Yes, I think this is a worthwhile addition to the API -- once the 
implementations are closer to what the spec says.

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