I would prefer not to visually drag the entire post around (which is what happens if I set draggable to true on the post container). My goal is to set draggable on a container element and only show a small element when the user starts dragging.
On Friday, June 29, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Ryosuke Niwa wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Alex Bain <[email protected] > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > I've spent the past few days working with the Drag and Drop API and I'd > > like to propose an addition to the spec to aid developers and designers in > > creating accessible drag interfaces. > > > > **Use case:** > > > > I'm developing an app that allows users to drag pieces of user generated > > content (Posts) from one part of the app to another. A Post is represented > > as a DOM subtree with multiple components - a title, some images, text, and > > so forth. I wanted to create an interaction where the user could click and > > drag anywhere on the Post (large click target for accessibility purposes), > > see a subset of the Post as a drag indicator (the title, for example), and > > then be able to drop that elsewhere in the app. > > You can't use draggable content attribute? > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/dnd.html#the-draggable-attribute > > - Ryosuke >
