Why does Mozilla's window.ondragdrop event have no effect whatsoever

April 4, 2004 3:30 PM

Why does Mozilla's window.ondragdrop event have no effect whatsoever, despite the fact that the official documentation claims the method exists?

Google has proven useless in divining a firm answer, instead providing me information on Moz's XUL infrastructure, Netscape Navigator 4.x, signed scripts (does the drop event really demand such a stringent and costly solution?), and so on. I'm about to start shrieking and frothing at the mouth in frustration.

If the event handler in question is truly a fantasy, do you know of a standard (read: plays nice/validates with XHTML, CSS, and the Mozilla DOM) way I can hack a response to a link or bit of text being dropped onto a window?

posted by Danelope to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

Best answer: Danelope, this might be useful. In summary, it appears this is implemented, but does not work and has been a known bug since 2002-03-09 10:43 PST. I found evidence that some people have found work arounds here.
posted by sequential at 4:39 PM on April 4, 2004

Maybe a visit to Bugzilla is in order...
posted by cbrody at 4:45 PM on April 4, 2004

Response by poster: Ahh, thank you. It hadn't occurred to me to look in Bugzilla. It seemed rather improbable that a piece of documented functionality could have been absent from Mozilla 0.0 through 1.7b, with no effort to either correct the problem or amend the documentation. Flawed assumption on my part, obviously.
posted by Danelope at 8:53 PM on April 4, 2004