Simon Willison’s Weblog

Draggable objects (via) Amit Patel’s detailed write-up of a small but full-featured JavaScript function for creating draggable objects, with support for both mouse and touch devices “using browser features that are widely supported since 2020”.

# 29th September 2023, 7:56 pm / draggables, dragndrop, javascript

@neodrag/vanilla (via) “A lightweight vanillaJS library to make your elements draggable”—I stumbled across this today while checking out a Windows 11 simulator built in Svelte. It’s a neat little library, and “download-esm @neodrag/vanilla” worked to grab me an ECMAScript module that I could import and use.

# 11th May 2023, 2:48 am / dragndrop, javascript

jQuery UI: Trying to manipulate the position of a draggable mid-drag doesn’t seem to work. This has bitten me on two separate projects now—it’s the only problem I’ve had with jQuery UI’s draggables, which have otherwise been fantastic.

# 11th April 2010, 9:59 pm / jqueryui, jquery, draggables, dragndrop, javascript

Firefox 3.5 for developers. It’s out today, and the feature list is huge. Highlights include HTML 5 drag ’n’ drop, audio and video elements, offline resources, downloadable fonts, text-shadow, CSS transforms with -moz-transform, localStorage, geolocation, web workers, trackpad swipe events, native JSON, cross-site HTTP requests, text API for canvas, defer attribute for the script element and TraceMonkey for better JS performance!

# 30th June 2009, 6:08 pm / firefox, html5, dragndrop, audio, video, offlineresources, fonts, textshadow, csstransforms, localstorage, geolocation, webworkers, json, crossdomain, canvas, tracemonkey, javascript, performance, browsers, mozilla, firefox35

Django snippets: Orderable inlines using drag and drop with jQuery UI. Code example from my PyCon tutorial on customising the Django admin interface.

# 13th September 2008, 12:19 pm / pyconuk2008, pyconuk, django, tutorials, speaking, snippets, sortable, jquery, python, dragndrop