LGTM1.

Thanks for fixing long-standing compat issues. Deeply appreciated.

Best,

Alex

On Monday, March 9, 2026 at 9:53:11 AM UTC-7 Chromestatus wrote:

> *Contact emails*
> [email protected], [email protected]
>
> *Specification*
> https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dnd.html#dndevents 
>
> *Summary*
> The drag and drop specifications require the "dataTransfer"'s object 
> "dropEffect" attribute to have certain predetermined values on "dragEnter", 
> "dragOver" and "dragLeave". Drag enter and drag over should have a 
> "dropEffect" based on the current "effectAllowed", and "dragLeave" should 
> always have a "none" "dropEffect". Currently, Chromium doesn't adhere to 
> these rules. With the launch of this feature, Chromium will start 
> respecting the specification and assigning the correct values to this 
> attribute so that web developers can start relying on it. 
>
> *Blink component*
> Blink>DataTransfer 
> <https://issues.chromium.org/issues?q=customfield1222907:%22Blink%3EDataTransfer%22>
>
> *Web Feature ID*
> draganddrop <https://webstatus.dev/features/draganddrop> 
>
> *Motivation*
> Many bug reports have been filed over the years by developers being 
> affected by the lack of a correct dropEffect implementation: 
> https://issues.chromium.org/issues?q=title:*dropEffect* 
>
> *Initial public proposal*
> *No information provided*
>
> *TAG review*
> *No information provided* 
>
> *TAG review status*
> Not applicable 
>
> *Risks*
>
>
> *Interoperability and Compatibility*
> None. Drop effect is reported as working properly in Firefox and Safari 
>
> *Gecko*: Shipped/Shipping
>
> *WebKit*: Shipped/Shipping
>
> *Web developers*: Strongly positive Visiting the crbug query linked in 
> the "Motivation" section will show strong sentiment from web developers in 
> wanting this fixed.
>
> *Other signals*:
>
> *WebView application risks*
>
> Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that 
> it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications? 
> None. Should any implementation issue be found, we have a feature flag 
> acting as a kill switch (SetDefaultDropEffect). 
>
>
> *Debuggability*
> No additional functionality is needed to be added to debug this feature 
>
> *Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, 
> Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and Android WebView)?*
> Yes
>
> *Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests 
> <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md>?*
> Yes 
> * WPT: "dropEffect" and "effectAllowed" are tested in: 
> https://wpt.fyi/results/html/editing/dnd/drop?label=master&label=experimental&aligned
>  
> * Other tests: We have unit tests (drag_and_drop_interactive_uitest.cc) and 
> blink web tests (third_party/blink/web_tests/fast/dnd/*) verifying the 
> correct functioning of this behavior.
>
> *Flag name on about://flags*
> None 
>
> *Finch feature name*
> SetDefaultDropEffect 
>
> *Non-finch justification*
> The feature will be shipped enabled by default to be used as a kill-switch 
> in case a severe issue is discovered.
>
> *Rollout plan*
> Will ship enabled for all users
>
> *Requires code in //chrome?*
> False
>
> *Tracking bug*
> https://issues.chromium.org/issues/434151262
>
> *Estimated milestones*
> Shipping on desktop 148 
> Shipping on Android 148 
>
> *Anticipated spec changes*
>
> Open questions about a feature may be a source of future web compat or 
> interop issues. Please list open issues (e.g. links to known github issues 
> in the project for the feature specification) whose resolution may 
> introduce web compat/interop risk (e.g., changing to naming or structure of 
> the API in a non-backward-compatible way). 
> N/A
>
> *Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status*
> https://chromestatus.com/feature/6325617459068928?gate=6549835522113536
>
> This intent message was generated by Chrome Platform Status 
> <https://chromestatus.com>. 
>

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