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

2009-08-22 Thread 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 clipboard you have to write all the flavours you think a recipient would ever make use of! The clipboard often survives computer-restarts. Drag-and-drop can also be for long-term

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

2009-08-22 Thread Paul Libbrecht
Le 14-août-09 à 10:00, timeless a écrit : Paul Libbrecht< wrote: - drag and drop allows a precise visual target identification thus may be considered safer (and this is actually implemented so: you can faster drag-and-drop URLs than copy and paste them). this isn't true. depending on how fr

Re: [File API] feedback on August 1/5 draft

2009-08-22 Thread Simon Pieters
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:22:53 +0200, Arun Ranganathan wrote: Michael Nordman wrote: >The draft says a new UUID should be 'coined' for each method invocation. (Why is that?) Given the coinage of a new url on each access, accessing it thru an attribute feels a little odd. This should have