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Bug 22497 - "Deprecating the ability to prevent a drag by cancelling dragstart is something we should seriously consider. " http://www.w3.org/mid/a874343bdb944447b0b6fe1f4ff4eb62@BN1PR03MB267.namprd03.prod.outlook.com
Summary: "Deprecating the ability to prevent a drag by cancelling dragstart is somethi...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
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: 2013-06-27 20:20 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-07-03 23:02 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2013-06-27 20:20:02 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/dnd.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#drag-and-drop-processing-model
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#drag-and-drop-processing-model
Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/

Comment:
"Deprecating the ability to prevent a drag by cancelling dragstart is
something we should seriously consider. "
http://www.w3.org/mid/a874343bdb944447b0b6fe1f4ff4eb62@BN1PR03MB267.namprd03.p
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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-07-02 23:46:34 UTC 
I like how Jacob describes that the API as "The HTML5 DnD APIs", when it was originally Microsoft's API, and all the declarative stuff was added on top of it to make it saner...

I don't really see how we could do what is proposed here.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-07-03 23:02:24 UTC 
I don't see how we can drop this. Sites depend on it.