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Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Foiled!

Recently, I started prototyping a web application. Work was progressing nicely, until a simple FireFox feature stumped me. Without going into details, the foundation of the application was dragging a URL from a (third-party) page into a text box. Unfortunately FireFox currently appends the link text to the URL, which makes it unusable. You can test this by dragging a link (e.g. this one) to the address bar.

Because it's the drag, rather than the drop that does the appending, there's not much I can do about it on a standard text box on a web page. As the target audience is the Web 2.0 types, a Windows client application is a poor compromise. I've got some research to do...

3 Comments:

Ben said...

I don't get this in Firefox 1.5, does it only affect certain versions?

February 03, 2006 9:49 AM  
Simon said...

I'm not sure. I'm using 1.5 too, so it might be an extension or something.

February 03, 2006 11:37 PM  
Simon said...

Oooh! Oooh! I've just installed 1.5.0.1 and it now works!

February 06, 2006 9:37 PM  

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