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I'm working on an app using QML and the Ubuntu SDK. One of the Pages contains a WebView. While the WebView receives click events just fine, it doesn't receive drag events, as I would like it to.

I assume the problem is that drag events are being trapped to provide navigation gestures for the WebView. This isn't necessary: The WebView is sized to exactly fill up the available space. In the HTML displayed by the WebView, I set <meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no">, to keep the WebView from allowing zooming. The content is sized to fill up the viewport, so there's no need for scrolling. But still, no drag events come through to the WebView. What do I need to do to let them through?

Edit to add: I've gotten reports that touch-and-drag works just fine; it's only mouse drag events that don't work. That would be consistent with this post, which suggests that mouse handling in WebViews in QML is broken.

Robert Schroll
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I've been wrestling with the same problem, as webview seems very limited wrt drag events. In your case, since you say you need no scrolling nor zooming, then wouldn't a simple MouseArea inside the webview work? This is assuming your simply using webview for rendering and not general browsing. As an aside, I ended up using onChildrenRectChanged to capture any scrolling within the webview, kind of like a substitute for contentX, Y, Width, and Height, but this may or may not be relevant for you.

Brian Robles
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