[kijin]

Is drag & drop really easier than just selecting a file from a dialog box? Almost every modern file uploading service has it, but I've never really found it useful. I've always thought of it as a feature that people enable "just because they can."

As a developer, it's pretty rare for me to have the folder containing the file I'd like to upload already open in an Explorer/Finder/whatever window. (I'm more likely to have it open in a terminal.) So it will take exactly the same amount of work for me to navigate to the folder in a dialog box as in an Explorer window.

Even if I happen to have the folder open in Explorer, it's a hassle to move, resize, or otherwise organize my non-tiled windows so that both the file I'd like to drag and the space where I need to drop it are visible at the same time. Larger or multiple screens won't help, as I'll just clutter them up with more windows. I could drag to the taskbar to bring the browser to the foreground, but again that's the kind of hassle that I won't need to incur if I just used the dialog box.

For ordinary people with small-screened laptops and tablets, I assume it will be even harder to keep two apps open in a way so as to enable drag & drop, especially since a lot of people just maximize every window. (Can't blame them when they're stuck with 1366x768 screens and/or platforms that encourage fullscreen apps.)

[drumdance]

I love drag & drop with Trello, especially when dragging Skitch screen shots. You don't even have to save the file.