HTML5 draft standard on drag-and-drop/copy-and-paste

[Joseph Scheuhammer]

I mentioned that Ian Hickson had posted a message on wai-xtech about 
HTML5 work on drag and drop.  I'm reading it, and have nothing to report 
yet, but I thought others might be interested.  Here are some links:

http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#dnd
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#copy-and-paste

Quoting the email message that piqued my curiosity 
(http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/2009Jan/0010.html):

> On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Sean Hayes wrote:
>   
>> > 
>> > maybe I'm missing something obvious, but how is this different to copy 
>> > (or cut) and paste?
>>     
>
> FWIW, in HTML5 copy-and-paste and drag-and-drop are exposed using the 
> exact same set of APIs and events.
>
> -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A 
> /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. 
> `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

-- 
;;;;joseph

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