On HTML 5 Drag And Drop

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by boucher • 17 years ago

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nathanb2• 17 years ago

Is it just me, or has HTML5 strayed away from defining how content should be interpreted and rendered in favor of defining how the resulting page should interact with the system it's running on?

Even the video element is made awkward by codec issues, thus depending on the browser implementer or underlying platform to function properly.

thristian2• 17 years ago

Before the sexy new "HTML5" moniker, that specification was known as "Web Apps 1.0" and aimed to specify extensions to HTML that would make creating richer, desktop-like cross-browser applications possible (largely by reverse-engineering IE's implementation). It was only after Hixie realised how woefully under-specified the rest of HTML was that the spec shifted to the more useful goal of formally specifying all current browser behaviour.

So, in a sense, you have it exactly backwards. :)

nathanb2• 17 years ago

Why is 'formally specifying current browser behavior' a useful goal? Do you perhaps mean 'formally specifying how the browser interacts with the system'? Why would anyone even remotely think this should fall under the auspices of the HTML specification.

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