iPhone drag and drop

Raymond Law — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:38:00 -0400

I had a chance to play with the iPhone at an Apple store yesterday. I found that if you go to Google Map or any Google Map mashup in Safari, you can’t drag the map! This is because the iPhone interprets your finger dragging as dragging the web page, not the Google Map on the web page.

The Google Map integrated into the iPhone itself works great though. Is this a bug or am I just missing something? Hopefully Apple fixes this soon because this means all websites that have drag and drop like Ta-da list are not usable (though I have not tried Ta-da list on the iPhone).

Update: Just headed over to the iPhone Developer Site. According to Apple’s Web Development Guidelines:

“A few other things to keep in mind about fingers as an input device:

There are no gestures to perform cut, copy, paste, drag-and-drop, and text selection operations.
The width of a finger limits the density of links on a page. If the links are too close, your users won’t be able to choose a single one.”

So the answer is no, at least for now.

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iPhone drag and drop