Dragging an image from Webpage within Firefox no longer provides it as DataFlavour java.net.URL/java.util.List on OSX with Java 7

[Paul Taylor]

On 13/01/2014 16:27, Hendrik Schreiber wrote:
> On Jan 13, 2014, at 14:14, Paul Taylor <paul_t100 at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
>> Hi, yes it is fixed in early access version of Java 8
>>
>> http://download.java.net/jdk8/changes/jdk8-b119.html?q=download/jdk8/changes/jdk8-b119.html
> Was this fixed by http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8027913 or http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7124253?
>
> Have you verified the fix?
>
> When dragging a JPEG (which is not embedded in HTML) from a web browser to my app, I never get a URL or a File list flavor. What I reliably see is:
>
> java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor[mimetype=image/x-java-image;representationclass=java.awt.Image]
>
> and depending on the browser a bunch of other text/... flavors. But I'd much rather have a URL or a file...
>
> This is on OS X 10.9.1 and FireFox 26, Chrome 31 and Safari 7.0.1, Java build 1.8.0-ea-b121.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -hendrik
>
>
I verified it was now working , but in my use case the jpeg is within 
the html file so maybe that is the difference

paul