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I have a requirment to allow Drag and Drop with out using HTML5. This drag and drop feature will allow a file to be dragged from the users desktop to a surface on a browser in my ASP.NET application.

I am having very little luck finding any thing even third party applications that will work and do this.

billsecond
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    As far as I know, this is strictly a new feature in HTML5 , if you are going to have clients install a 3rd party application on their computer for drag and drop, why not just have them install a browser that supports that feature instead? – Matthew Mar 30 '12 at 14:49
  • Why can't you use new HTML 5 features and provide an alternative for older browsers? – ridecar2 Mar 30 '12 at 14:50
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    What about this question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1663741/is-there-a-good-jquery-drag-and-drop-file-upload-plugin that points to this answer http://blueimp.github.com/jQuery-File-Upload/ – Code Maverick Mar 30 '12 at 14:51
  • @Scott - That isn't compatible without HTML5. I tried on IE8 with no success. Worked very nice in chrome though! – Travis J Mar 30 '12 at 15:00

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Here are some options: These do not work in IE.

http://www.thecssninja.com/javascript/drag-and-drop-upload

http://valums.com/ajax-upload/

http://www.element-it.com/multiple-file-upload/silverlight-image-uploader.aspx (Silverlight)

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It's not possible without a browser/OS plugin

Adrian Zanescu
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