Mac OS X Applet DND bug (related to JDK-8020371)

[James Velasco]

Michael,

Thanks for the info 
(http://lists.apple.com/archives/java-dev/2011/Jul/msg00083.html),
however it is quite out of date since the "detach an applet" trick from 
the browser has been broken
with the Oracle JDK 7 for quite a while 
(https://www.java.net//forum/topic/jdk/java-se/os-x-108-java-7-applet-exception-dragstart?force=653) 
<https://www.java.net//forum/topic/jdk/java-se/os-x-108-java-7-applet-exception-dragstart?force=653%29>,
and is currently open per the new JDK bug DB ( 
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8013363 
<https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8013363> ), even though it's 
just a workaround to get the real issue,
broken DND in applets working.

I have been following this issue on and off, but we now have customer 
who needs this to work on Macs, and so I brought it up with
some of the Oracle guys at last week's java one. There was an attempt to 
fix it as shown in the subversion code related to the JDK bug 
(http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8020371) from the 
old bug DB which does not really address the general DND issues related 
to applets on the mac.