I could see this technique being really helpful with orginzing vast categories. As a matter of fact, I had a job awhile back that I felt would really have benefited from something like this. Pretty cool stuff, check it out.

In Web applications I’ve seen numerous — and personally implemented a few — ways to rearrange items in a list. All of those were indirect interactions typically involving something like up/down arrows next to each item. The most heinous require server roundtrips for each modification…boo.

Then I came across Simon Cozens’ example of rearranging a list via drag & drop. I was so inspired I had to try it out myself. [Read the rest]