Re:Declarative Dragging
by anonymous908213 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @08:21PM
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I mean, maybe we're missing context here. Is that what your boss was actually asking for? 99.99% of web applications (or, hell, desktop applications) don't have ultra-interactive, fully-responsive-animation drag-and-drop. If he was asking for functional drag-and-drop and the team was implementing top 0.01% cosmetic drag-and-drop, that's certainly one avenue for a mismatch in expectations.
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Re:Declarative Dragging
by FearNotDaniel on Monday November 09, 2026 @05:21AM
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I think people are talking about two different kinds of drag-and-drop. There is dragging external items (files from the OS, for example) onto the app surface from outside. And there is a list of items, each with its own UI component, being dragged within an app to either change sort order or otherwise change data state. Both complex, and have a lot in common, but many comments here seem to be talking about one or the other without specifying.