Simon Willison’s Weblog

On HTML 5 Drag and Drop. Francisco Tolmasky investigated HTML 5 drag and drop, which allows web apps to implement drag and drop between windows and between the browser and the desktop. He found a number of problems with the spec and proposes detailed solutions.

# 17th August 2009, 12:31 pm / 280slides, draganddrop, franciscotolmasky, html5, javascript, standards

280slides and Objective-J. 280 slides uses an Objective-C clone written in 13KB of JavaScript. I have to admit I’m completely baffled as to why you would want to use Objective C instead of JavaScript, but evidently it worked fantastically well for them.

# 7th June 2008, 4:09 pm / 280slides, compiler, javascript, ned-batchelder, objectivec