Uploading things through the "Choose File" prompt on the web is slow and cumbersome. Google Chrome, however, lets you drag and drop files into any window to upload them, even when it isn't a feature ...

For quite some time, Gmail users in Chrome and Firefox have been able to drag and drop multiple attachments into the window to be sent, but that’s where the fun stopped. If you wanted to download ...

Chrome: Google Docs/Drive has had drag-and-drop for file uploading for quite some time, but you could only upload individual files, not folders. Finally, Google has rolled out this timesaving feature ...

HTML5 offers developers a File API with drag-and-drop support to make web apps behave a bit more like desktop apps. Provided you've got a modern web browser and are using a web app that supports it ...

Have you ever gone to use drag-and-drop on Google Chrome, only for the file to take over the tab entirely? It’s a really frustrating problem, but one the browser is set to fix in the very near future!

New web technologies tend to travel a trajectory that moves from "amazing demo with fiendishly complex code", to "very cool product feature" and finally to open source library that takes 10 seconds to ...