1041435 - Dragging URL from address bar should assign URL to data transfer object

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Copy & Paste and Drag & Drop, defect)

Description

[oliverjash]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/38.0.2096.9 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Highlight a URL in the address bar and then drag and drop it


Actual results:

The drop target does not receive the URL (event.dataTransfer.getData('URL')). This does work in Chrome.


Expected results:

It should receive the URL as event.dataTransfer.getData('URL') (in the `drop` event).

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Can you reproduce this on using a current version on Mac?
 (I cannot on Windows)

Comment 2

[Frankie]

Sorry, I don't know. A testcase would be helpful.

Comment 3

[YF (Yang)]

Attachment: testcase

Based on https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/testing/web-platform/tests/html/editing/dnd/canvas/001.xhtml.


Reproducible on Fx42.0b3 Win8.1, got URL data on Chrome 45.

Comment 4

[iamjayakumars]

It works fine in MAC OS X 10.11

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0 ID:20151004030211 CSet: 8464f02a2798cf9ff8759df712f2c77ec0b15d23

Comment 5

[YF (Yang)]

(In reply to iamjayakumars from comment #4)
> It works fine in MAC OS X 10.11
> 
> Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101
> Firefox/44.0 ID:20151004030211 CSet: 8464f02a2798cf9ff8759df712f2c77ec0b15d23

Are you got a URL text?

Comment 6

[iamjayakumars]

Attachment: While Draging

Yes, i got the text. check the attached screenshot.

Comment 7

[YF (Yang)]

(In reply to iamjayakumars from comment #6)
> Created attachment 8670095 [details]
> While Draging
> 
> Yes, i got the text. check the attached screenshot.

You should drag the text to box of the testcase, it alert the event.dataTransfer.getData('URL');.

Comment 8

[iamjayakumars]

(In reply to YF (Yang) from comment #7)
> (In reply to iamjayakumars from comment #6)
> > Created attachment 8670095 [details]
> > While Draging
> > 
> > Yes, i got the text. check the attached screenshot.
> 
> You should drag the text to box of the testcase, it alert the
> event.dataTransfer.getData('URL');.


It working fine, without alert.

Comment 9

[Frankie]

Testcase results:

FF 43a2 on Mac OS X 10.10:
drag address bar icon: shows URL alert
drag address bar text: shows blank alert

FF 41 on Windows 8.1:
drag address bar icon: shows URL alert
drag address bar text: shows blank alert

Chrome 44b on Mac OS X 10.10:
drag address bar icon: shows URL alert
drag address bar text: no response

Chrome 45 on Windows 8.1:
drag address bar icon: shows URL alert
drag address bar text: shows URL alert

Safari 9 on Mac OS X 10.10:
drag address bar icon: shows URL alert
drag address bar text: shows blank alert

MSIE 11 on Windows 8.1:
drag address bar icon: shows URL alert
drag address bar text: does not allow text dragging

It's unclear what the result is supposed to be, but I'd call this WFM.

Comment 10

[Frankie]

Attachment: improved testcase

When you highlight the address bar text and drag it, it drags as type Text. This is arguably the correct behavior. It is text that happens to match a URL format.

When you click the address bar icon and drag it, it drags as type URL (and Text).

Comment 11

[Frankie]

Behavior is not appreciably different from other browsers (with the exception of Chrome on Windows).
Treating a text drag as type Text is not incorrect.