It is when you are already better as measured by a large number of heavy email users and the primary hold outs point to small, mostly moot, feature holes.
They're using open web standards — if I recall correctly this feature isn't enabled in Safari due to a bug affecting the dropping of a collection of files in that browser.
Last I checked, one weakness of the FF support is that it can only read a dropped file into memory in its entirety -- not by fileBlob slices. That may not be fatal for typical-sized email attachments, but is a serious limitation for one of my desired applications.
(I'm not sure I'm even reading the HTML5 drag-and-drop spec right about reading ranges... but they wouldn't spec a feature that could only work with files that easily fit in the browser's memory, would they?)
As the article says; this is the advantage of making your own browser. They can support these features with a decent market share - and it pulls the other browsers along with them.
Nice idea, but I'm running the latest Chrome, and when I drag an image on, it shows the "Drag Files Here" part in GMail OK but then when I let the click go, Chrome changes URL to the file:// URL of the local image. D'oh..
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[ 0.29 ms ] story [ 48.6 ms ] threadHere's an earlier article about support in FF:
http://decafbad.com/blog/2009/07/15/html5-drag-and-drop
Last I checked, one weakness of the FF support is that it can only read a dropped file into memory in its entirety -- not by fileBlob slices. That may not be fatal for typical-sized email attachments, but is a serious limitation for one of my desired applications.
(I'm not sure I'm even reading the HTML5 drag-and-drop spec right about reading ranges... but they wouldn't spec a feature that could only work with files that easily fit in the browser's memory, would they?)
Smart moves.