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I'm writing this HTML5 music player that works by dragging music files onto it. (will soon use WebRTC too)

http://pepijndevos.nl/KjuMusic/

It works in Chrome, it used to work in Firefox, and still does on a friends Mac.

However, on my Xubuntu laptop, both with the default and the nightly Firefox, I get

FileList { length=0, item=item()}

when dropping one or more files. I'm not even sure anymore if this is a bug in my code, Firefox, or somewhere else in xfce.

Pepijn
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  • is this still an unanswered topic? currently i've got the same problem in chrome on windows 7. – GottZ Nov 18 '12 at 20:59
  • now it works for me. all i did was taking it away from being called as local file. i just opened the html document through localhost and it worked. – GottZ Nov 18 '12 at 21:17
  • seems like a browsersided permission issue. – GottZ Nov 18 '12 at 21:18

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Which file manager are you using? HTML5 Drag&Drop used to only work with Nautilus for a long time. As of this writing, PCManFM works as well, but Thunar still doesn't.

Current versions for future reference:

  • Thunar 1.6.3
  • PCManFM 1.1.1
  • Nautilus 3.8.2

There's also a Firefox Bugzilla entry regarding this problem: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=609284

Dave Vogt
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