Defeating the final boss of drag and drop bugs with the honey pot fix

All browsers have an extremely painful drag and drop bug that can cause elements that the user is not currently over to be incorrectly ‘entered into’ with mouse events while a drag is occurring. The “honey pot fix” is a novel workaround for this bug.
- Pragmatic drag and drop: github.com/atlassian/pragmati...
- Chrome bug report: issues.chromium.org/issues/41...
- Twitter: x.com/alexandereardon

[@dev__adi]

nicely explained. I have a feeling that I'll be using this honeypot fix in various other browser bugs too

[@JoelUngerAtlassian]

Diabolical fix! I love tricking browsers.

[@MattStone86]

Cool technique, thanks for sharing! I love hushed and excited delivery of "confidential knowledge" 🤣

[@alexandereardon]

Cheers!

[@anlukinha8764]

Mouth noises! Once I noticed them, I couldn't hear anything else. Great content btw.

[@SamScheding]

Good stuff! Love how much more elegant the second fix is compared to the first

[@alexandereardon]

Cheers!

[@hrafnkellpalsson]

Thoroughly enjoyed this! 🍯

[@huang47tw]

this is awesome, thanks for sharing

[@itsdouges]

I found this interesting

[@alexandereardon]

🫡

[@serhii3194]

It is insane how browsers are not fit for applications development, having issues that never existed or fixed long ago in native OS app UI sdk's

[@alexandereardon]

All platforms have their rough spots, and I am confident native UI SDK's do as well 😅