High Performance Touch Drag and Drop

One or more computer readable storage media having instructions stored thereon that, responsive to execution by a computing device, cause the computing device to implement a touch drag/drop helper module configured to:

• receive one or more manipulation notifications based on a pointer message associated with a touch input, the pointer message configured to initiate a drag and drop operation on an element of a page;
• correlate updates associated with the pointer message with a drag visual that represents the element on the page;
• and
• send one or more drag notifications to a drag drop manager, the drag notifications configured to enable the drag drop manager to initiate one or more mouse-compatible functionalities without having to understand the touch input.

A method comprising:

• identifying one or more draggable elements on a page;
• rendering the one or more draggable elements on the page into a layer that is separate from another layer into which content on the page is rendered;
• receiving an input to initiate a drag and drop operation on a draggable element;
• and
• responsive to the drag and drop operation being initiated, rendering a drag visual based on the draggable element.