[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #27880: Drag and Drop Media prevents Drag and Drop Text

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#27880: Drag and Drop Media prevents Drag and Drop Text
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 Reporter:  Ipstenu       |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  3.9.1
Component:  Editor        |     Version:  3.9
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                |     Focuses:
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Comment (by Zumatra):

 I'm not even sure I am allowed to post here as I am in no way involved in
 WP development but I was following a link from a thread I started on this
 subject.

 I think that to be a little surprised that drag and drop is used in
 writing posts kind of suggests a narrow scope of how WP is used and that
 it is only used for blogging. As somebody else said, I used it to quote
 chunks of text and YouTube descriptions of videos which I embed. It saves
 a lot of time when one spends a couple of hours per day posting and the
 extra time spent soon mounts.

 I definitely cannot drag and drop from one browser to another - at least
 not from Safari to Firefox because that's how I first discovered the
 problem. I can sometimes (but I haven't discovered the necessary
 conditions to do so) drag and drop from Mac TextEdit to Safari but only if
 I place the cursor at the text insertion point. It may be that text must
 have already been inserted but Drag and Drop from TextEdit to Safari isn't
 something I do very often - it's usually Safari-Firefox or Safari-Safari,
 neither of which work.

 Replying to [comment:3 Ipstenu]:
 > It's hard to gauge. I think it's one of those 'Heavily used by people
 who knew about it' features. I find it useful in forums or tickets when I
 want to quote, but I'm really a little surprised it's in-use for writing
 posts.
 >
 > Would it be possible to have an option (define option, not a check box)
 to allow people to turn off the whole-page drag/drop to get it back? That
 MIGHT get us a better idea of how it's used.

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