Portlet drag and drop

[Michelle D'Souza]

Thanks for taking a look at this Herb.

> .One recommendation - when I drag the weather portlet, for example,  
> upwards to move it above the calendar on your test page, the  
> calendar stays where it is; it does not move down until you let go  
> of the weather box. Would it not be more obvious where the drop  
> location was going to be if the calendar portlet moved down as you  
> started dragging the weather portlet up, leaving an empty space  
> between the two for the drop?

I'm a little confused by this. Once the weather portlet is high enough  
that it would drop above the calendar, the calendar does move down and  
the empty box which signifies where the weather portlet would drop is  
placed above the calendar.

> Obviously this approach has the disadvantage of losing the visual  
> cue for the original location of the weather portlet

I think the design that is being worked out actually involves removing  
this visual cue - I just didn't get around to mocking it up.

> (I also exper!
> ienced some intermittent flashing of background items when a portlet  
> is being slowly dragged that is a bit distracting and might confuse  
> those with certain visual or cognitive disabilities.)
>

The flashing you are seeing is a combination of two known bugs:  
FLUID-407 and FLUID-563. This is a major problem and a blocker for the  
0.3 release.

Michelle

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Michelle D'Souza
Software Developer, Fluid Project
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre
University of Toronto