[intergalplan]

Business users looooove drag and drop. I've seen products burn a stupid amount of money to have it, and decision-makers insisting it was a must-have no matter the cost in time and ongoing overhead in time & bugs for everydamnthing else added to the UI after. I've seen business-side people favor terrible products because they have drag-n-drop, while a better alternative doesn't. They love it.

It's heavy-weight, fragile, lots of implementations are framework-specific, and most of them are horribly buggy, but it's nonetheless a must-have feature in many cases. It'd be a great candidate for better support in the browser, generally, if we're going to insist on using it as an application platform.

[jacurtis]

> Business users looooove drag and drop. I've seen products burn a stupid amount of money to have it, and decision-makers insisting it was a must-have no matter the cost

This just made me laugh because it is so true. I thought it was just my stupid luck that I keep working with companies obsessed with drag and drop. But you are right. I have seen companies blow hundreds of thousands of dollars implementing drag and drop on a trivial feature. The same company will then complain about spending a few thousand dollars implementing a security feature or implementing training programs to teach employees about the importance of securely handling PII.

Edit: PII = Personal Identifiable Information (social security numbers, credit cards, birthdates, etc).

[monsieurbanana]

Has this improved? I've seen recently browser built in drag and drop (that people don't use as of, but as a base in lightweight dnd librairies).

I don't remember having that last time I had to implement serious drag and drop, about 4 years ago.