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Chrome 77 Breaking Drag and Drop Events

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Re: Chrome 77 Breaking Drag and Drop Events

#11
I've been dealing with a massive performance regression in the canvas API. The frustrating bit is that they were well aware of the cost and made the change anyways. They didn't seem to stop and consider what effect it might have on major libraries and applications.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=100184...

Re: Chrome 77 Breaking Drag and Drop Events

#12
post #6

Chrome Canary is currently 79.0. The mainline version is 77. Edit: I wasn't able to reproduce in either, didn't dig into why

> Edit: I wasn't able to reproduce in either, didn't dig into why

Not just drag 'n drop, but a drag 'n drop inside an iframe that points to a different domain.

Re: Chrome 77 Breaking Drag and Drop Events

#13
post #9

I switched to Firefox after they stopped caring about usability issues (like right clicking without releasing left mouse button deselects the text since v fifty-something on windows), the difficulties they created for ad blockers, the account integration fiasco, and so on. I know this particular bug seems to be an edge case that may happen with every browser, but when you are using Chrome, you should know that if an…

> I know this particular bug seems to be an edge case that may happen with every browser, but when you are using Chrome, you should know that if an issue doesn't affect Google, it will likely be deprioritized a lot.

For what it's worth, I've found them responsive to my bug reports, and even my feature requests.

Re: Chrome 77 Breaking Drag and Drop Events

#14
post #4

It seems like drag-and-drop is out of fashion. I think big reason is that it really cannot be done well on touch-screen devices and touchpads. I don't really complain, because I have always found d&d rather impractical (and it's also terrible for accessibility); unfortunately, there are some applications that still rely on it a lot. (As an aside, what bothers me more that the right-click menu goes out of fashion. Tha…

Ah who cares, it works with a mouse. One should not force inferior input methods to devices that have better ones.

Re: Chrome 77 Breaking Drag and Drop Events

#15
post #9

I switched to Firefox after they stopped caring about usability issues (like right clicking without releasing left mouse button deselects the text since v fifty-something on windows), the difficulties they created for ad blockers, the account integration fiasco, and so on. I know this particular bug seems to be an edge case that may happen with every browser, but when you are using Chrome, you should know that if an…

> I'd still humbly suggest everyone to give Firefox a try.

I usually suggest die-hard Chrome users use a plugin to spoof their user agent so product managers and developers are more likely to tread non-Chrome as a first-class browser.

Re: Chrome 77 Breaking Drag and Drop Events

#17
I had to fire up Epiphany recently just to do drag-n-drop graphics assets management in the Steam app admin page.

Both Firefox and Chromium were broken, when I contacted Steam's support they said I am the only person having problems.

When I dug into the failure a bit in Firefox the object coming with the event was always NULL, and searches turned up a bunch of results from web devs struggling with the same problem in various ways.

I'm glad Epiphany worked, so I could promptly forget it all and get on with my life. Presumably it's still broken for steam app devs however. It escapes me why Valve doesn't have a simple file browser button fallback for when this crap doesn't work.

Re: Chrome 77 Breaking Drag and Drop Events

#19
post #9

I switched to Firefox after they stopped caring about usability issues (like right clicking without releasing left mouse button deselects the text since v fifty-something on windows), the difficulties they created for ad blockers, the account integration fiasco, and so on. I know this particular bug seems to be an edge case that may happen with every browser, but when you are using Chrome, you should know that if an…

Skype web doesn't work on Firefox and am still not able to fathom why

Re: Chrome 77 Breaking Drag and Drop Events

#20
post #9

I switched to Firefox after they stopped caring about usability issues (like right clicking without releasing left mouse button deselects the text since v fifty-something on windows), the difficulties they created for ad blockers, the account integration fiasco, and so on. I know this particular bug seems to be an edge case that may happen with every browser, but when you are using Chrome, you should know that if an…

Skype web doesn't work on Firefox and am still not able to fathom why

They just block it by user agent, if you spoof it, everything is working well.
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