The basic sequence involved in drag and drop is:
• Move the pointer to the object
• Press, and hold down, the button on the mouse or … See more

The HTML5 working draft specification includes support for drag and drop. HTML5 supports different kinds of dragging and dropping features including:
• Drag … See more

Drag and drop is considered an important program construction approach in many end-user development systems. In contrast to more traditional, text-based programming languages, many end-user programming languages are based on visual components … See more

Drag and drop, called click and drag at the time, was used in the original Macintosh to manipulate files (for example, copying them between disks … See more

The Workplace Shell of OS/2 uses dragging and dropping extensively with the secondary mouse button, leaving the primary one for selection and clicking. Its use like that of other … See more

Touch screen interfaces also include drag and drop, or more precisely, long press, and then drag, e.g. on the iPhone or Android home screens.
iOS 11 implements a drag-and-drop feature which allows the user to touch items (and tap with … See more

A common example is dragging an icon on a virtual desktop to a special trashcan icon to delete a file.
Further examples include:
• Dragging a data file onto a program icon or window for viewing or processing. For instance, dropping … See more