Great info Owen, thanks for that! Andy
On 11/20/05, Owen Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andy Skelton wrote: > > Interesting: I can drag images from FF into IE. > > Firefox includes 18 members in its drag-and-drop clipboard structure, > including elements that contain the temporary filename for the image, > HTML for the image and the link around it, and Windows shortcut-format > data among others. > > The IE clipboard only contains 5 elements on drag-and-drop. Only the > last element of the struct contains anything useful, and it's only the > link to the parent post, never the link to the image. > > In other words, the only things that IE will let you drag and drop are > shortcuts when you drag something that is linked. > > An examination of these structures perfectly answers the question of why > you can drag from FF to IE, because although when you initiate a drag > from IE it creates less-than-adequate clipboard contents, IE accepts the > well-filled clipboard container from FF and inserts the appropriate code. > > If you want to drag images in IE and have them work, then they can't be > linked to anything. If they are linked, then the event that starts the > drag uses the link and not the image in the clipboard struct for the event. > > Unless this behavior is adjusted in IE, or you can figure out a way to > get the user to drag something in IE that generates a good clipbard > container (or maybe use some kind of DHTML structure instead), the > native drag-and-drop stuff will never allow a linked image drag to work > from IE to anywhere. There may be a hack, and although this is all the > investigation I've done in the past ten minutes, I really doubt it. > > Look here for a tool to mess with that shows these structures: > http://www.codeproject.com/clipboard/clipspy.asp > > Owen > > > _______________________________________________ > wp-testers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers > _______________________________________________ wp-testers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers
