On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 15:26, Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch> wrote: > The parenthetical isn't the important part (that's why it's > parenthetical). The important difference between setDragImage() and > addElement() is that the latter automatically generates the image based on > the current rendering of the elements added whereas the former uses the > exact specified image. So for example if the user is dragging an element > with some complicated CSS styles, that's what gets drawn with > addElement(), whereas the author has no sane way of providing an image > that contains equivalent pixels. > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' >
It seems like setDragImage() does that as well: > If the element argument is an img element, then set the drag data store > bitmap to the element's image (at its intrinsic size); otherwise, set the > drag data store bitmap to an image generated from the given element (the > exact mechanism for doing so is not currently specified). Doesn't the otherwise clause describe exactly what addElement() does? Daniel
