Bug 24132 – Cannot drag text

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: JavaScriptCore

[Eric G]

I have a test site at:

http://ericgorr.net/safaritest.html

Basically, what I would like to be able to do is drag some text. As best I can determine, the correct method for making this happen hasn't changed since I first reported the problem in 2006.

The first text span on the test site used to be draggable in Safari 2.x, but ceased being so in Safari 3.x and still isn't with the latest release of Safari 4.x.

Please see the following threads:

https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2009-February/006771.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/webkitsdk-dev/2006/Oct/msg00064.html
http://bytes.com/groups/javascript/550644-javascript-drag-drop

for more history

[Eric G]

Created attachment 27930 [details]
test case

Should live indefinitely at http://ericgorr.net/safaritest.html

[Eric G]

rdar://problem/4792468

[Daniel Bates]

Seems to work in the current nightly (r49701). Can you confirm?

(In reply to comment #0)
> I have a test site at:
> 
> http://ericgorr.net/safaritest.html
> 
> Basically, what I would like to be able to do is drag some text. As best I can
> determine, the correct method for making this happen hasn't changed since I
> first reported the problem in 2006.
> 
> The first text span on the test site used to be draggable in Safari 2.x, but
> ceased being so in Safari 3.x and still isn't with the latest release of Safari
> 4.x.
> 
> Please see the following threads:
> 
> https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2009-February/006771.html
> http://lists.apple.com/archives/webkitsdk-dev/2006/Oct/msg00064.html
> http://bytes.com/groups/javascript/550644-javascript-drag-drop
> 
> for more history

[Eric G]

Confirmed. It appears to be working as expected now.

Is this a deliberate fix? 
Has making sure this continues to work been added to a test suite?

(I'd like to know that it will remain fixed.)

[Oliver Hunt]

We've made a number of drag and drop fixes (including this apparently) all those fixes should have regression tests to ensure that we don't break again.