Safari 5.1 does not support drag-and-drop in applets. Is Apple serious about the enterprise market??

Safari 5.1 has broken support of the extremely useful file/folder drag-and-drop functionality of java applets:

http://lists.apple.com/archives/java-dev/2011/Jul/msg00204.html

http://lists.apple.com/archives/java-dev/2011/Jul/msg00083.html

Our web application, as well as many other web-based applications that rely on high-volume file uploading, relies on being able to drag-and-drop folders and files from the finder to the browser for uploading. Java applets provide the only useable solution for this critical business function, yet Safari 5.1 has dropped the support.

Unfortunately, both FireFox and Chrome also have this limitation. I think that the feeling is that HTML5's native file API, which supports drag-and-drop, is the solution, but unfortunately it doesn't come close to being able to do what the java applet can do in this regard.

I can certainly understand that the browser's DEFAULT behavior should be what it is -- grabbing incoming drag events for itself and not passing them along to the applet -- that is just a way to prepare for improved support of the HTML5 drag-and-drop features, but it should have been done with some sort of override that a webapp like ours could use to override this default behavior.

We pride ourselves in our support of the mac, but Apple is making it harder and harder!