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What web programming framework best supports ’drag and drop’ actions?  Please give examples of sites and/or plug-ins that support the interaction.

19th February 2012

My answer to What web programming framework best supports ’drag and drop’ actions?  Please give examples of sites and/or plug-ins that support the interaction. on Quora

Drag and drop is a client-side thing—it has nothing to do with the server-side technology being used.

Take a look at the drag and drop implementation provided by the big open source JavaScript libraries—Dojo, YUI, jQuery UI all have solid implementations.

Posted 19th February 2012 at 5:56 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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