Drag’n'Drop Attachments
October 4th, 2010 by Ben Kamens
Back around the time when FogBugz 7.3 was about to launch, Gmail launched a really cool feature: the ability to drag and drop attachments from your computer directly onto your browser window and into the email you're about to send.
We thought this was an awesome display of browser power and wanted in on the fun. So we secretly snuck drag'n'drop case attachments into FogBugz 7.3 so that we could play around with the feature and see if it felt useful.
Adding screenshots to FogBugz cases has always been one of the most powerful ways to describe bug reports.
With the launch of FogBugz 8.0, we're bringing a little more attention to the feature. And we'd like to know what our users think.
We're still a little unsure about the usability experience of dragging items from your desktop directly into a browser window. If this behavior becomes more standard in popular web apps across the board, or if our users start heavily relying on the feature, we'll bring in support for more browsers (Firefox in particular), add the ability to drag'n'drop multiple files at a time, and generally refine the experience.
For now, drag'n'drop is a nice little shortcut that Chrome and Safari users can use to quickly attach items to any FogBugz case. Let us know how it goes!
Props go to Google for continuing to push the limits of browser technology…and for inspiring us to push the boundaries of how FogBugz can leverage that technology.
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