[whatwg] HTML 5 drag and drop feedback

[Anne van Kesteren]

On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:37:57 +0200, Nabil Elisa <nabil.elisa at gmail.com>  
wrote:
> Furthermore I'm not sure I agree with Ian's argument for holding out  
> until the browsers support the current API  more reliably.  My  
> experience has
> shown that there are numerous cross-browser incompatibilities in the
> existing implementations of more trivial features, yet we are not waiting
> for all of those to get resolved before adding support for, say, native
> video.  So why should this be any different?

The argument Ian made was not support for feature A is brittle so we  
should not do feature B. It was support for feature A is brittle so we  
should do not do feature A-2 just yet.


> Anyway, I'm new to this group and don't know much about how decisions are
> usually made here, but in case there was any doubt about this idea's
> popularity I'd like to lend it my own +1.

Decisions are usually made based on merit, not popularity.


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