alt Hacker NewsDumb question: why? It’s been a long time since I touched GUI code, but I thought it gave you a message with the URI to the file. How is this significantly different than file-open?
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mcculley • yesterday at 10:50 PM
There are more possible actions than opening files.
This was circa 2010 or so, and it was a web app. So pre-ES6 JavaScript, before React.
Nowadays you would just "npm install drag-and-drop" but back then you often had to hand-roll solutions.
If anyone can dig up an ancient library on GitHub for drag-and-drop back in those days, I'd imagine it would be several thousand lines long, not to mention the absolute nightmare that testing something like this with a proper framework and accompanying testing library.