Drag and Drop
Mark J. Collins · Apress eBooks · 2015
The ability to select an element and drag it to another location is an excellent example of a natural user experience. I can still remember the early Apple computers where you could delete a file by dragging it onto a trash can icon. This action, and hundreds more like it, is a key component of user experiences found on desktop applications. Web applications, however, have lagged far behind in this arena. With the drag-and-drop (DnD) API in HTML5, you’ll find web applications rapidly catching up. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.