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I don't think it's fair to blame the HTML5 drag and drop API entirely on WHATWG; my understanding is that it was originally specced years ago as the sanest usef
by thristian 12y ago
I don't think it's fair to blame the HTML5 drag and drop API entirely on WHATWG; my understanding is that it was originally specced years ago as the sanest useful subset of IE6's drag and drop API. It may not be the prettiest thing ever, but it's prettier than how it started out.
- panzi 12y agoSubset? Isn't it more like a super set? IE6 (and above) has no files array that can be read with a FileReader and it only supports the types "Text" and "URL", no support for proper mime types.
- thristian 12y agoI think this is what I was remembering: http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1115899732&count=1 http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1115899732&count=1 ...which is to say, IE6 supported more event types and more configurable behaviour than HTML5 supports, but some of those extra features were just too weird, or outright crashed IE, so they didn't make it into the spec.