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Bug 16696 - This legacy API is not very interoperably implemented, and has a number of design problems (such as having six boolean arguments in a row, giving the ability to expose a UA dialog, affecting the selection when successful, etc). We may just drop it instead
Summary: This legacy API is not very interoperably implemented, and has a number of de...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-04-11 07:11 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-09-05 23:26 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-04-11 07:11:37 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/dnd.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#dom-find
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#dom-find

Comment:
This legacy API is not very interoperably implemented, and has a number of
design problems (such as having six boolean arguments in a row, giving the
ability to expose a UA dialog, affecting the selection when successful, etc).
We may just drop it instead.

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Comment 1 contributor 2012-07-18 17:19:48 UTC 
This bug was cloned to create bug 18115 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-09-05 23:26:33 UTC 
It's no longer in the HTML spec.