Yeah, in other languages you don't use "preventDefault" but e.g. "acceptProposedAction". So they could have added such an method to the event object. I guess it

Yeah, in other languages you don't use "preventDefault" but e.g. "acceptProposedAction". So they could have added such an method to the event object. I guess it's a bit of a quick fix thing why Microsoft didn't do that and the w3/whatwg just took that. As to "I don't see a clear reason why any other event should matter". Well, yeah, one could implement it so that only the drop event really matters, but I guess it's done the way it is so it forces the programmer to explicitly handle the dragover event. This way the appropriate mouse icon will be displayed and the user knows what's going to happen when they drop now. Strange situation where I, a Linux user, defend something made by Microsoft. Usually I spew a lot of hate against Microsoft just for committing the crime called Internet Explorer (especially version 8, which I still have to support, bah).