Inconsistent plugin behavior in figma app and browser

[Ethan_Sherbondy]

Hi @Elaine_Lin, we are also running into this issue!
It seems to impact Non-null origin iframes in particular.

Some additional context & reports for things that sound similar/related across the community forum (all of which have gone unanswered):

Unable to drag and drop entities on Figma web via self-hosted UI

Hey, we recently launched a plugin for FigJam (https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1220696620350131525) that exports notes as Stickies and clips as Embeds. This works fine for Figma Desktop App but doesn’t replicate same behaviour on Figma on web. We have followed the official guide for implementing drag and drop for self-hosted UI. Guide: https://www.figma.com/plugin-docs/creating-ui/#drop-events-from-a-non-null-origin-iframe Official Code Example: https://github.com/figma/plugin-sample…

Drag and drop from plugin window

I want to second Ben_Smith’s request about event listeners in the editor. It’s great to have the drop event in the API now, but on OSX (or rather with webkit specifically), dragging and dropping is not a great experience. I gather this is because dragend is really the only event we can trigger the drop, since we are outside the plugin iframe. On Windows and Linux, this does not seem to be a problem, because dragend is called immediately when you drop an item outside the iframe. This is not the…

The global variable `figma` in browser cannot listen for events

Although this is a plugin api, in previous experiments it was possible to retrieve the figma object in the browser and perform the same behavior. But it doesn’t seem to be working now. Is it a proactive strategy or an inadvertent defect? [image]

We would love to get this resolved / any suggestions for workarounds!

Also want to echo that it is very difficult for plugin authors to catch issues like this before a plugin is released, because you cannot test a plugin in the browser before it is released! So any discrepancies between the Figma desktop app and the Figma browser experience go undetected through the review process . Any possibility of being able to test dev plugins in the browser in the future?

Lastly, is there a way via the plugin API or otherwise to detect whether a plugin is being executed in the browser or desktop app? Then we can at least ship a quick patch release to notify users about the missing drag-and-drop behavior on the web.