[wp-testers] Error with WYSIWYG/Build 3104

[Andy Skelton]

Great info Owen, thanks for that!

Andy

On 11/20/05, Owen Winkler <ringmaster at midnightcircus.com> wrote:
> Andy Skelton wrote:
> > Interesting: I can drag images from FF into IE.
>
> Firefox includes 18 members in its drag-and-drop clipboard structure,
> including elements that contain the temporary filename for the image,
> HTML for the image and the link around it, and Windows shortcut-format
> data among others.
>
> The IE clipboard only contains 5 elements on drag-and-drop.  Only the
> last element of the struct contains anything useful, and it's only the
> link to the parent post, never the link to the image.
>
> In other words, the only things that IE will let you drag and drop are
> shortcuts when you drag something that is linked.
>
> An examination of these structures perfectly answers the question of why
> you can drag from FF to IE, because although when you initiate a drag
> from IE it creates less-than-adequate clipboard contents, IE accepts the
> well-filled clipboard container from FF and inserts the appropriate code.
>
> If you want to drag images in IE and have them work, then they can't be
> linked to anything.  If they are linked, then the event that starts the
> drag uses the link and not the image in the clipboard struct for the event.
>
> Unless this behavior is adjusted in IE, or you can figure out a way to
> get the user to drag something in IE that generates a good clipbard
> container (or maybe use some kind of DHTML structure instead), the
> native drag-and-drop stuff will never allow a linked image drag to work
> from IE to anywhere.  There may be a hack, and although this is all the
> investigation I've done in the past ten minutes, I really doubt it.
>
> Look here for a tool to mess with that shows these structures:
> http://www.codeproject.com/clipboard/clipspy.asp
>
> Owen
>
>
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