[whatwg] More questions about the DnD API

[Stef Epardaud]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 02:33:07AM -0700, Daniel Cheng wrote:
>      But what was the rationale for preventing key events while doing DnD?
> 
>    I'm not 100% sure, but I'm assume it's so that the process of dragging and
>    dropping doesn't trigger unrelated mouse / keyboard listeners.

Unrelated yes, but that also prevents applications from adding DnD
functionality based on key presses.

>      Why not make the implied drag and/or dragstart explicitely fired when
>      external applications start DnD in the browser? That might make it
>      simpler and more consistent.
> 
>    Because those events are intended for a source node. It introduces several
>    new problems (which node should get the event? how do authors differentiate
>    between the two different types of dragstart?) without really solving
>    anything that isn't already handled by other events. If you have drop
>    targets in your page, you don't really care about a drag and drop operation
>    in progress unless the item is dragged over your page--at which point one
>    can simply use dragenter / dragover / dragleave.

How about registering the drag/dragstart on window.external?

So you're saying that if I start dragging from a document element (say a
div) and from an external application over the document, in both cases a
dragenter listener registered on the body element should get fired even
when the drag is currently over a descendent of the body?
Same for dragleave when the drag is finished or the drag went out of the
browser window (to other external apps for example)?

If so, then I can live with this.
-- 
Stéphane Epardaud