1252824 - Drag Drop from Windows GDI app to FF 44.0.2 password textbox not dropping

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[John Straker]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0
Build ID: 20160210153822

Steps to reproduce:

Not sure whether this is now a feature or a bug.

Using legacy 4UOnly or latest Keypass 1.3 drag username or password to online site
http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_draganddrop
Or any site requiring logon boxes


Actual results:

On W3schools site mouse image is a bar circle until hovered over box. Then it changes to pointer with drop + symbol. On other sites the mouse pointer never changes from the bar circle symbol.


Expected results:

On W3shools site dragging the web page image to the box does drop the image correctly. However, using the GDI app image the drop never happens. This failure to drop is happening on MS Edge but not IE11 where the GDI image drops correctly. GDI image drops ok into Word 2007 Win 10 Wordpad but not Notepad. Using the Win app to click on username or password does allow once the insertion point has been placed into the web box to paste the information correctly.

Comment 2

[John Straker]

Nightly 47 didn't fix the problem

Comment 3

[Loic]

Which easy GDI freeware app I can test on Win 7 to reproduce that bug?

Comment 4

[John Straker]

Legacy Dillobits 4UOnly (2002-2006 v1.2.8) or Keypass 1.3 The duplicate post says Keepass 2.x (.net version) doesn't have the problem but I haven't tried it. 4UOnly is the easiest to install.

http://4uonly.en.uptodown.com/

Comment 5

[Loic]

emk, any thoughts?

Comment 6

[Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]]

The w3schools sample is not designed to accept images from external apps. I have no idea how can IE accept the drop from external apps.

Comment 7

[Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]]

Honestly, I don't understand the bug report. The summary and STR say about dragging the text, but AR/ER say about dragging images. Dragging text should work on Firefox 45+. Is comment #2 about dragging images?

Comment 8

[John Straker]

:emk
The W3schools box was to illustrate a point. On a bank login or any site that has username and login boxes dragging the text to the box does not change the mouse symbol. It remains a bar circle that says drag and drop is not available. On W3schools the mouse pointer changes as it should to a plus sign document when hovered over the box indicating that when the mouse button is released the text will drop into the box. It doesn't nothing happens. However dragging an image does work. Is it a unicode problem at the OS level?

If the web page requires a unicode text drop and the OS is not wrapping the GDI functionality correctly then the web page never sees text in fact it doesn't recognise what has been dragged so refuses to drop it. But how to go about proving this?