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Test of if an OS is ready for regular users: Does drag and drop work? Can I choose a random image/file somewhere in one tab/application and drop it into anot
by londons_explore 3y ago
Test of if an OS is ready for regular users:
Does drag and drop work? Can I choose a random image/file somewhere in one tab/application and drop it into another.
Just testing that now...
* Drag HN logo to Whatsapp Web: Pass
* Drag from Google Photos to Photopea: Pass
* Drag a zip file from Google Drive to Dropbox: Fail.
* Drag an attachment from an email from gmail into an online hex editor: Fail
Conclusion: The web platform isn't yet ready.
- jrajav 3y agoYou could just as easily construct an arbitrary usability test over interop that the web platform excels at while current desktop apps do terribly. For instance: * Send a link to a Google Drive document to another person on WeChat: Pass * Send a link to a Microsoft Word document to another person on Slack: Fail The web has different paradigms and some of them are an improvement, one being hyperlinks, another being instant delivery just for example (no install time).
- londons_explore 3y agoBut you can drag and drop a word document to slack...
- Klonoar 3y agoI've known "regular users" who don't even realize you can drag and drop between desktop applications. Conclusion: this is an incredibly arbitrary metric.
- nightfly 3y agoI've never even considered doing many of those things, and I've worked in IT for ~10 years and been using computers for 25
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