For future reference, I posted another suggestion to the public-webapps
list. Instead of specifying a download URL, you could specify a URL on a
type as the source of the data:
dataTransfer.setRemoteData(mimeType, url);
That could allow for both file downloads and/or lazy loading of data
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Jian Li wrote:
The HTML 5 spec defines the event-based drag-and-drop mechanism that
could cross the browser boundary. If a draggable element contains a URL,
dragging it out of the browser will only copy the URL value. However, in
some scenarios, we really want to
Wilson
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Subject: [whatwg] Proposal to drag virtual file out of browser
SUMMARY
The HTML 5 spec defines the event-based drag
virtual file out of browser
SUMMARY
The HTML 5 spec defines the event-based drag-and-drop mechanism that could
cross the browser boundary. If a draggable element contains a URL, dragging
it out of the browser will only copy the URL value. However, in some
scenarios, we really want to download
SUMMARY
The HTML 5 spec defines the event-based drag-and-drop mechanism that could
cross the browser boundary. If a draggable element contains a URL, dragging
it out of the browser will only copy the URL value. However, in some
scenarios, we really want to download the data file from the
