{"id":4610,"date":"2010-10-22T14:14:49","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T12:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tokao.com\/?p=4610"},"modified":"2010-10-22T14:14:49","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T12:14:49","slug":"drag-and-drop-your-images-into-google-docs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/22\/drag-and-drop-your-images-into-google-docs\/","title":{"rendered":"Drag-and-Drop Your Images into Google Docs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google has just added the ability to drag-and-drop images from the desktop into a\u00a0Google Docs document.<\/p>\n

The new feature works with the latest versions of\u00a0Google Chrome, Firefox\u00a0and\u00a0Safari, and\u00a0Google\u00a0says it plans to add support for other browsers soon. The feature works exactly as you would expect. Rather than importing an image using the web uploader, entering in a URL or doing a Google Image Search, you just drag the item from your desktop into your\u00a0Google Docs\u00a0document.<\/p>\n

Drag-and-drop uploading is actually a pretty big win for a web app like Google Docs. Competitor\u00a0Zoho\u00a0supports drag-and-drop for some of its apps, but dragging an image into a Zoho Writer file just ends up inserting a local file address into the document.<\/p>\n

The process works pretty well and we had no problem taking images from our Mac desktop and putting them in a Google Doc using both Safari 5.0.2 and the latest release of Google Chrome.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

In fact, if we had any complaint at all, it wasn\u2019t with the feature itself, but with the fact that images still cannot be inserted with a float alignment, so that text fills the column to the left or right of an image, rather than starting a new line where the image ends. Again, this isn\u2019t a criticism of the drag-and-drop feature, but a feature that\u2019s lacking in Google Docs itself.<\/p>\n

Thanks to\u00a0HTML5, it\u2019s getting easier and easier for developers to add features to web apps to make them behave more like desktop applications. We hope other online office suites take Google\u2019s hint.<\/p>\n

(from mashable<\/a>)<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google has just added the ability to drag-and-drop images from the desktop into a\u00a0Google Docs document. The new feature works with the latest versions of\u00a0Google Chrome, Firefox\u00a0and\u00a0Safari, and\u00a0Google\u00a0says it plans to add support for other browsers soon. The feature works exactly as you would expect. Rather than importing an image using the web uploader, entering […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9,89],"class_list":["post-4610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-google","tag-mashable"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}