HTML5 Drag and drop not working in chrome 32

Question

If I drag and drop a file in latest chrome stable (v32) webkitGetAsEntry returns null. i.e. the entry will be null in the following code:

var entry = item.webkitGetAsEntry();

However if I click and select files they come through just fine.

Q: where can I get documentation for webkitGetAsEntry

basarat · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-14 23:29:09Z

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Apparently I was on the beta channel for chrome. Uninstalling and reinstalling chrome brought me back to the stable channel (v31 at the moment) which does not have this bug.

answered Nov 14, 2013 at 23:29

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logidelic Over a year ago

Unfortunately Chrome 32 has now been released and appears to still have the same problem. Does anybody have a solution? I can't find any good references to this issue anywhere. Perhaps it's just a bug that hasn't yet been noticed by / reported to Google?

foxontherock Over a year ago

That's what I found, they are working on it... But they released it because it was working in Gmail! code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=332579 It's not working in moxiecode plupload.

logidelic Over a year ago

Actually I take back my comment... For me the problem only exists for items where I wasn't checking item.kind=='file'... Now that I'm ignoring all other items, I have no problem. For items where kind=='file', webkitGetAsEntry() as always.

foxontherock · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-15 19:30:47Z

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What? That trouble was in the DEV channel on november 14, and now it is on the STABLE channel?

All our drag-drop are now unusable using the plupload html5 upload module...

(edit) Chrome team is working on it... https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=332579

edited Jan 15, 2014 at 19:30

answered Jan 15, 2014 at 18:37

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Serge Over a year ago

XUbuntu 13.04 / Chrome 35.0.1883.0 dev aura The issue still here, dnd file doesn't work

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