Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...

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 ...

Cloud storage and document sharing startup Box.net is the latest startup to adopt HTML5. The startup is announcing today that it is incorporating a broad implementation of HTML5 drag and drop ...

Google continues to use HTML5 to push its web apps into the future. The latest bit of HTML5 to feel Google’s love is drag-and-drop support, which is now a standard part of Gmail. If you’re using ...

Google has added a couple of useful features to Gmail which are now available directly on the main client without them having to graduate from Labs. The first is based on HTML 5 and will allow users ...

Good news for those with active GitHub profiles: you can now add files to your repos by dragging and dropping them into the browser. Once a file is uploaded, you can add it to an existing branch, or ...

When using either of the HTML5-powered browsers, you can now drag multiple videos from your desktop to anywhere on YouTube’s Video File Upload page. No longer will you have to select videos one by one ...

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 ...

Microsoft Edge developer Eric Lawrence has planted a change in the Chromium Gerrit that finally fixes the annoying drag and drop quirk in Chrome 85. Mr. Lawrence detailed the recently reported fix in ...