Actually, contenteditable is widely supported, HTML5 leveraged and standardized what was already out there as a proprietary feature. This is why all those web apps have rich text editors these days.The big downside is that it's actually quite difficult to make it work flawlessly. For example, pasting bits of rich text from various applications can easily break it. Most rich editors spend the majority of their code working around the various quirks. This is also why bespin (mozilla's online programmer's editor) doesn't use contenteditable, but instead captures all the keys you press and draws the result onto a HTML5 canvas.
Love the subtle dig at IE:"We'll enable this for other browsers as soon as they support this feature. For now, you can drag and drop attachments in Chrome and Firefox only."Translation: "If IE ever stops sucking this will work there too, but don't hold your breath. So for now it only works in the good browsers."
Closed AccountApr 17, 2010
Hardly a gentleman though.
russauApr 17, 2010
Yes, HTML; specifically the File Api. More on it here: <a class="user" href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Using_files_from_web_applications#Selecting_files_using_drag_and_drop" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Using_files_from_ ...</a>
jsebrechApr 17, 2010
Actually, contenteditable is widely supported, HTML5 leveraged and standardized what was already out there as a proprietary feature. This is why all those web apps have rich text editors these days.The big downside is that it's actually quite difficult to make it work flawlessly. For example, pasting bits of rich text from various applications can easily break it. Most rich editors spend the majority of their code working around the various quirks. This is also why bespin (mozilla's online programmer's editor) doesn't use contenteditable, but instead captures all the keys you press and draws the result onto a HTML5 canvas.
lodeswrathApr 17, 2010
@omgwolfI thought Avatar was Dances with Wolves? Or are all 3 movies essentially the same?
althiusApr 17, 2010
Love the subtle dig at IE:"We'll enable this for other browsers as soon as they support this feature. For now, you can drag and drop attachments in Chrome and Firefox only."Translation: "If IE ever stops sucking this will work there too, but don't hold your breath. So for now it only works in the good browsers."
frederiknsApr 20, 2010
Shouldn't that be possible to achieve with something like greasemonkey?
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rehasher01Apr 30, 2010
You're doing it wrong.