Recommended drag types for DND API uses nonstandard type for dragging nodes.

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MDN URL

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTML_Drag_and_Drop_API/Recommended_drag_types

What specific section or headline is this issue about?

Dragging Nodes

What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

Nodes and elements in a document may be dragged using the application/x-moz-node type. The data for the type should be a DOM node. This allows the drop target to receive the actual node where the drag was started from. Note that callers from a different domain will not be able to access the node even when it has been dropped.

You should always include a text/plain alternative for the node.

What did you expect to see?

Nodes may not be dragged directly.

Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?

The standard states that the setData interface expects a DOMString, not a "DOM node".

The standard states that the drag data is a Unicode or binary string.

Do you have anything more you want to share?

The provided data type application/x-moz-node is not mentioned in the HTML standard, and may be Mozilla-specific.

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• Folder: en-us/web/api/html_drag_and_drop_api/recommended_drag_types
• MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTML_Drag_and_Drop_API/Recommended_drag_types
• GitHub URL: https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/files/en-us/web/api/html_drag_and_drop_api/recommended_drag_types/index.md
• Last commit: 6b730e3
• Document last modified: 2024-08-26T15:41:27.000Z