Re: Intent to remove: support for old drag events
On 6/9/15 10:21 PM, Karl Dubost wrote: Jonas, Le 10 juin 2015 à 13:44, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc a écrit : But do we have any data that this won't break websites? nope. But at first sight, it doesn't seem used at all. https://github.com/search?q=draggesturetype=Issuesutf8=%E2%9C%93 And most of the JS code is also quite unrelated or from books https://github.com/search?l=javascriptq=draggesturetype=Codeutf8=%E2%9C%93 It looks like some addons will be affected: https://mxr.mozilla.org/addons/search?string=draggesture%22tree=addonscase=1 https://mxr.mozilla.org/addons/search?string=dragdrop%22tree=addonscase=1 ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: Intent to remove: support for old drag events
On 06/09/2015 05:17 PM, Neil Deakin wrote: In bug 1162050, we'd like to remove support for the old non-standard drag events, which were left in for a period of compatibility. yes please. Anything we can do to simplify dnd code is good. -Olli The 'draggesture' event should be replaced with the 'dragstart' event (such as ondragstart) The 'dragdrop' event should be replaced with the 'drop' event. If you use these events, they are fired in the same manner as the standard events, so it should be a simple matter of searching and replacing the event names. The non-standard dragexit event will remain as is, as it has no exact standard equivalent. Firefox does not use these events in its code. I filed bug 1171979 for fixing this in Thunderbird and bug 1171980 for fixing this in Seamonkey. If you use these events anywhere or you are the author of an add-on that uses these events, you will need to update your code as described above. The standard drag and drop API is described at: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/interaction.html#dnd https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Drag_and_drop In addition, we would like to remove the long-deprecated nsDragAndDrop.js script located in toolkit/content in favour of the standard drag and drop API, described at the links above. To ease the transition, if necessary, you may wish to include this script ( https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/content/nsDragAndDrop.js ) directly in your project. Please respond if there are any concerns. ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Intent to remove: support for old drag events
In bug 1162050, we'd like to remove support for the old non-standard drag events, which were left in for a period of compatibility. The 'draggesture' event should be replaced with the 'dragstart' event (such as ondragstart) The 'dragdrop' event should be replaced with the 'drop' event. If you use these events, they are fired in the same manner as the standard events, so it should be a simple matter of searching and replacing the event names. The non-standard dragexit event will remain as is, as it has no exact standard equivalent. Firefox does not use these events in its code. I filed bug 1171979 for fixing this in Thunderbird and bug 1171980 for fixing this in Seamonkey. If you use these events anywhere or you are the author of an add-on that uses these events, you will need to update your code as described above. The standard drag and drop API is described at: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/interaction.html#dnd https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Drag_and_drop In addition, we would like to remove the long-deprecated nsDragAndDrop.js script located in toolkit/content in favour of the standard drag and drop API, described at the links above. To ease the transition, if necessary, you may wish to include this script ( https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/content/nsDragAndDrop.js ) directly in your project. Please respond if there are any concerns. ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: Intent to remove: support for old drag events
Jonas, Le 10 juin 2015 à 13:44, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc a écrit : But do we have any data that this won't break websites? nope. But at first sight, it doesn't seem used at all. https://github.com/search?q=draggesturetype=Issuesutf8=%E2%9C%93 And most of the JS code is also quite unrelated or from books https://github.com/search?l=javascriptq=draggesturetype=Codeutf8=%E2%9C%93 -- Karl Dubost, Mozilla http://www.la-grange.net/karl/moz ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: Intent to remove: support for old drag events
On 2015-06-09 10:17 AM, Neil Deakin wrote: In bug 1162050, we'd like to remove support for the old non-standard drag events, which were left in for a period of compatibility. This is great! As far as I know, these events have never been supported by another browser engine. Is that correct? If so, hopefully not a lot of websites would be affected by this these days. ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: Intent to remove: support for old drag events
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Ehsan Akhgari ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com wrote: On 2015-06-09 10:17 AM, Neil Deakin wrote: In bug 1162050, we'd like to remove support for the old non-standard drag events, which were left in for a period of compatibility. This is great! I agree it's great if we can remove this. But do we have any data that this won't break websites? We do know that websites quite often use browser-specific features, including Gecko specific ones. / Jonas ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
