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Using Drag & Drop
HTML5 adds support for drag and drop. This is something that we had to rely on JavaScript libraries such as jQuery to handle previously. The advantage of having drag and drop built into the browser is that it is properly integrated into the operating system and, as you will see, works between browsers.
It is still early days for this feature and there is a significant gap between the specification and the implementations offered by the mainstream browsers. Not all parts of the specification are implemented by all browsers and some features are implemented in substantially different ways. In this chapter, I have showed you what currently works. This isn't the complete set of features defined by the HTML5 standard, ...
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