285912 - Dragging link to Notepad/mIRC should drop URL (rather than doing nothing)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050312
Firefox/1.0+

Steps to reproduce:
1. Drag a link from Firefox to Notepad or mIRC.

Result: No-drop cursor.

Expected: Drop link URL.

Comment 1

[Thomas K. (:tom)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223
Firefox/1.0.1

CONFIRMED

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Dragging to Win32Pad or MSN Messenger has a different result: the URL is
dropped, followed by a line break, followed by the link text.  I think just
dropping the URL would be more useful.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Isn't this an issue with what those apps look for in the clipboard?

Comment 4

[Thomas K. (:tom)]

Version 1.6b2 (1.8.1.12pre 2008011814)

I dragged a link from this window (the bug link) into the text box in my IRC client "Linkinus" (mac), and it copied the url over.

Comment 5

[Thomas K. (:tom)]

Whoops, I forgot to mention that was in Camino.  I thought it copied over with the version text, but I didn't actually read, just went through the copy paste motions.

Comment 6

[Grey Hodge (jX)]

This has been working for quite a while.