Liam R E Quin wrote: > Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: >> More to the point, >> apart from dragging text into a textarea, there's been no situation >> where you could drag stuff *from one browser window into another*, which >> is what would make panels useful. > > This is not true. For example, try dragging the icon to the left of the > Location bar that represents the current Web page onto the bookmark > menu, or into a gnome-terminal :-) or into a browser window.
I believe MPT was talking about more generalized use of the browser client area as a drop target; see below for more. > On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 17:47 +0100, John Keller wrote: >> This is very much a corner-case example, but I seem to remember a >> web-based bookmarking system that allowed you to use drag-and-drop to >> create a new bookmark. > > Netscape, Mozilla, IE, allow you to use drag and drop to create > and manage bookmarks. (I think galeon might too, but > can't try right now) Yes, but I was talking about a Web-based system that somehow interacted with a link (the content area was able to act as a drop target for client-side "system" objects). I only bought it up in reference to the "never say never" comments (which I quoted in my original reply). I wasn't, and I don't think the others, were referring to functionality built-in to the browsers. The subject was web browser windows as targets, which I agree is very rare. The example was simply meant to demonstrate that, indeed, "never" is a very long time - especially when people find creative/unintended uses. >> As I said, very much a corner case. > Actually I'd say that for people used to environments that make > heavy use of drag and drop it's pretty "obvious". > > E.g. in MS Windows, dragging a file icon onto the task bar will make > the corresponding program open the file. Dragging an icon onto a > menu bar opens the menu and invokes the item with the dragged data... > and Mozilla Firefox at least does the same sort of thing in Linux. Again this is out of scope. I was replying only to comments about browser windows, and I was recognizing that my example was a very rare occasion, but one that - had its use become wide-spread - might have us rethinking the use of tabs. This is a pedantic reply, but I think you misinterpreted my comments. I was never commenting on or disputing the general use of drag-and-drop. My original reply, taken in context, was only meant as a comment on browser windows (i.e. the content area) as drop targets. - John _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
