Closed Bug 1745743 Opened 3 years ago Closed 3 years ago

Support Drag and Drop from Outlook

Categories

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

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Copy & Paste and Drag & Drop
Platform:
Desktop
Windows
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

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Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 580928
Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox97 --- affected

People

(Reporter: dennis, Unassigned)

References

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Details

When dragging an Outlook element (e-mail, contact etc.) into a file upload field, that drop doesn't work.
According to https://tonyfederer.github.io/OutlookFileDrag/ (an Outlook add-on to specifically work around this problem), Outlook uses a special format CFSTR_FILEDESCRIPTORW which Firefox currently doesn't support.

There is a chromium bug at https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=322605 that deals with the same problem which seems to have been resolved in 2019.

I have created a small codepen with the code simply copied from the MDN docs at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTML_Drag_and_Drop_API/File_drag_and_drop (see URL). It shows that the drop handler is triggered but there's no way to actually get the filename or its contents.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 3 years ago
Component: File Handling → DOM: Copy & Paste and Drag & Drop
Product: Firefox → Core
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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