Re: DnD vs CnP (was Copy/Paste Events)

[Paul Libbrecht]

Le 22-août-09 à 07:51, Ian Hickson a écrit :

 copy-and-paste is aimed at long term storage: if you write to the

ever make use of! The clipboard often survives computer-restarts.

clipboard you have to write all the flavours you think a recipient would

were going to copy to your clipboard to your clipboard

Drag-and-drop can also be for long-term storage -- drag whatever it is you

erm... can you give me the pixel coordinates of my clipboard please?

... same result. And

copy-and-paste.

with the DND model in HTML5, you have to "write all the flavours you think a recipient would ever make use of" in the same way as you describe for

To me, as a server implementor, this is a problem: I will not offer any expensive type for DnD then, while I could offer them if I knew the target wishes to get, say, a PDF of the formula that was just dragged.

DND in HTML5 generates the data at drag time, not drop time.

Well, this is the choice of HTML 5 I am debating, precisely.
It all comes (consistently) together as a problem.

So I would insist to split the two set of events while keeping common,

of course, some of the interfaces to denote what can be transferred.

I see no reason to split them.

paul

Maybe a reasonable approach would be to have on "simplified" API that corresponds to this one which merges the two while a finer grained API would differentiate them?

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