Excalidraw and Fugu: Improving core user journeys

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Excalidraw is shown as a full PWA with offline, installable app and surprising adoption numbers — 12k active users, 1.5k GitHub stars, 26 contributors within weeks and 149 contributors total — with a same‑day PR merge that added File System Access API support. Concrete tools: a fallback library browser fs access, drag‑and‑drop using getAsFileSystemHandle, file handling via manifest file_handlers and launchQueue, clipboard writes of canvas blobs, collaborative cursors with movement+visibility idle detection, and an early tab application mode.

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2. 7:19Drag and Drop in Excalidraw
3. 8:10The Web Share Target Api
4. 11:18Clipboard Integration
5. 11:54Collaborative Mode

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