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The ability to select an element and drag it to another location is an excellent example of a natural user experience. I can still remember the early Apple computers where you could delete a file by dragging it onto a trash can icon. This action, and hundreds more like it, is a key component of user experiences found on desktop applications.
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Collins, M.J. (2017). Drag and Drop. In: Pro HTML5 with CSS, JavaScript, and Multimedia. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2463-2_24
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