MicrosoftEdge / MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers
[DownloadURL-list] Try to make this uniform with the rest of drag&drop
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https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/DownloadURL-list/explainer.md proposes to extend the Chromium-only DownloadURL system to become a way to download multiple files at once. @avidrissman noticed that it would be more uniform with the rest of the platform to treat these as File elements of dataTransfer.items.
Could you either switch to that approach, or explain why it's a bad idea in an Alternatives Considered section?
cc/ @dandclark @slightlyoff
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Open DownloadURL-list/explainer.md and read the linked DataTransfer.items and File references first. Compare the proposed DownloadURL behavior with the platform’s existing drag-and-drop model. Done means either adopting File elements in dataTransfer.items or adding an Alternatives Considered section that explains why this approach is unsuitable.
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