Advantages of HTML 5 Drag and Drop over jQuery UI Drag and Drop
I'm writing a new web application that needs to support drag and drop operations for elements on the page (not file drag and drop). This the answer to this question html5 vs jquery drag and drop recommends using Modernizr to check whether the browser supports HTML5 drag and drop and either use that support or fall back to an alternative like jQuery UI. Since they have quite different models, that means that all drag and drop code would have to be implemented and tested separately (very little shared implementation). It only seems logical to do that if there are significant, user-impacting