[whatwg] contentEditable and drag and drop cancel

[Ryosuke Niwa]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Charles Pritchard <chuck at jumis.com> wrote:

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> On 1/31/12 9:10 PM, Ryosuke Niwa wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Charles Pritchard <chuck at jumis.com>wrote:
>
>> What was the verdict, or what is the current position on using drag and
>> drop dataTransfer with contentEditable?
>>
>> As I understand things:
>> One must run ondragover = function() { return false; } to capture a drag
>> and drop data.
>> By returning false, the default behavior of a contentEditable box, which
>> is to move the cursor, is canceled.
>>
>
>  Could you elaborate on what you mean by "to move the cursor" is
> canceled? Are you saying that the caret won't move to where the mouse
> pointer is? On which browser did you test this behavior?
>
> Yes, that's correct -- I'm testing on Chrome.
>
> I'd like to drag and drop a file from the desktop into a position in the
> contentEditable with one action.
> But, it seems that I have to cancel the default action of drag (to get the
> file)
>

Why do you have to do that? And when?

- Ryosuke