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Pro HTML5 with Visual Studio 2015
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Pro HTML5 with Visual Studio 2015

by Mark J. Collins
June 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
452 pages
9h 59m
English
Apress
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CHAPTER 14

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Drag and Drop

The ability to select an element and drag it to another location is an excellent example of a natural user experience. I can still remember the early Apple computers where you could delete a file by dragging it onto a trash can icon. This action, and hundreds more like it, is a key component of user experiences found on desktop applications. Web applications, however, have lagged far behind in this arena. With the drag-and-drop (DnD) API in HTML5, you’ll find web applications rapidly catching up.

In this chapter, you’ll build a web application that implements a checkers game, using the DnD API to move the pieces around ...

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