Drag Drop Copy Paste
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Drag Drop Copy Paste
Detailed write-up
Description
Standard APIs within HTML pages for drag/drop and copy/paste, including the ability to transfer data to/from the other things running on the desktop. (But of course with appropriate attention to security issues.)
Why Is This Important?
The high-level goal with Ajax is to enable desktop-like user experiences in the browser using open technologies. To complete the job, browser-based applications need to include similar drag/drop and copy/paste features as are available for desktop applications.
What exists today?
HTML5 includes proposals for how this might work:
Discussion
In this section, the contributors should express their opinions about this feature request, such as providing particular technical analysis or describing in prose why this feature is important (or not). It is recommended that each contributor create his own level-3 sub-section (e.g., === Jon Ferraiolo Comments ===).
It is OK for others to insert comments within other people's sections, but as a courtesy please make sure that it is clear which part of the section is original and which section are annotative comments. For example, perhaps annotative comments would be colorized (e.g., enclosed by <span style="color:red">JON: Here is what I think about what you are saying.</span>).
Phase I Voting - Vote for Your Top 5 Features
NOTE: PHASE I VOTING IS NOW OPEN. (2008-04-01) We have now changed the voting procedure. Instead of putting votes on each separate wiki page, we are asking people to cast their Phase I Votes on the following wiki page:
Phase II Voting
More about this later.
