Simon Willison’s Weblog

On HTML 5 Drag and Drop. Francisco Tolmasky investigated HTML 5 drag and drop, which allows web apps to implement drag and drop between windows and between the browser and the desktop. He found a number of problems with the spec and proposes detailed solutions.

# 17th August 2009, 12:31 pm / html5, draganddrop, franciscotolmasky, javascript, standards, 280slides

Table Drag and Drop jQuery plugin. Drag and drop of table rows is a special case (jQuery UI doesn’t seem to support it)—this plugin works pretty well though.

# 4th July 2008, 12:04 pm / jquery, draganddrop, tables, jqueryui

Pipes. New Yahoo! service for combining and remixing Atom/RSS feeds using a really sophisticated drag-and-drop UI.

# 8th February 2007, 7:52 am / draganddrop, pipes, atom, rss, syndication