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Drag & Drop URLs from browsers into new-tweet/DM windows
This would make it much, much easier to add URLs to tweets. I do this all the time to add URLs to, say, instant messages. It's very surprising that Tweetie can't do it.
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Inappropriate?I would like to drag-and-drop URLs as well. The fact I get a green plus symbol would suggest that it is meant to happen but it currently doesn't paste anything from Firefox 3 or Safari 4 beta.1 Comment
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It does pretty much the same thing in Firefox -- I was attempting it in the latest public beta of the upcoming new version (3.1 or 3.5). Firefox, too, looks like the drop should work but on release, nothing happens at all. -
Inappropriate?Agreed, very strange behaviour, although is this not what the bookmarklet is for?1 Comment Add a comment
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Drag-and-drop enables an URL to be added mid-sentence rather than at the start then edit around it. Also links on a page can be dragged to a post. The bookmarklet only does the page URL.
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Inappropriate?The bookmarklet works, but this isn't the way apps are expected to behave. Users expect drag and drop to work, and don't want to have to use a 'hack'.
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Inappropriate?The Bookmarklet does one thing (mainly being used for NEW Tweets). A drag & drop copy of URLs would be used for something else (most useful for REPLIES)
Example: If I reply to a tweet I could drag the URL from the browser into the reply window - presto!
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Inappropriate?Even better, be able to drag the URL onto the tweetie dock icon to automatically create a tweet ready for posting. I do this with emails I like to share with people from Safari to Mail.app
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Inappropriate?I see the original poster made this a 'question'. IMO, this is a BUG. Particularly since Tweetie gives the green 'plus' cursor when dragging the URL to a new tweet indicates that the tweet is a legal drop destination, but it doesn't work.
I sincerely hope Atebits classifies this problem as a bug and gives fixing this appropriately high priority.
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Yes, I agree, it's a bug not a question. I am not familiar enough with Get Satisfaction to know how the system works. This question should be reclassified as a bug or problem.
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I noticed this as well. But I think what you are seeing is a bug in Safari, not Tweetie. The drop icon seems to occur on the border of Safari not once you leave the window. Drag and drop targeting is very specific when over windows (3rd party Mac software dev who's done D&D)
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Inappropriate?I agree that drag and drop into the tweetie window would be an excellent feature. Especially if you could do shortening on the fly from preferences.
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Inappropriate?It's not a browser bug unless both Safari and Firefox suffer from the same bug -- I don't use Safari for browsing unless a site doesn't work on FF.
