Firefox 3.6 features drag-and-drop uploading

Posted on Wednesday, December 16 2009 @ 22:10 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

The Tech Report writes Firefox 3.6 will add drag-and-drop uploading support:

Despite all of the dynamic JavaScript and XML goodness that permeates the web these days, uploading photos and documents has remained a chore—unless you happen to love that "Browse..." dialog for some reason, of course. In the next version of Firefox, Mozilla has laid out the framework for a new file upload system that essentially lets users drag and drop files right into their browser windows.

The feature already works in pre-release versions of Firefox 3.6, and Mozilla evangelist Christopher Blizzard has posted a video of it in action..

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