Dropping image in contentEditable region replaces document

[emerick]

When I drag an image over a contentEditable region, I get an insertion caret as expected. However, dropping the image completely replaces the current document. I was hoping instead for some type of notification that would allow me to insert the image into the document at the drop location.

[magreenblatt]

This sounds like something that lives completely inside Chromium/Blink. How does it behave in Google Chrome? Did you try searching the internet for a solution?

[emerick]

It behaves the same way in Chrome. It sounds like I can work around at least some of this behavior via JavaScript and HTML5 drag and drop support (ala https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/dnd/basics/), although I'm not yet certain that will provide exactly what I want. Google searches haven't turned up anything definitive yet, unfortunately. Does HTML5 and JavaScript seem like the most reasonable approach? Not sure if I'm missing any other possibilities.