It appears the ’solution’ is to add the site to the Trusted Zone (my site’s bookmarklet pages now suggest “For the latest versions/patches of IE you may need to add the site to your Trusted Zone to enable drag’n'drop. You shouldn’t be adding Bookmarklets from a site you don’t trust anyway, but if in doubt don’t use the drag’n'drop method, or remove the site from the Trusted Zone afterwards”).

Is there something more dangerous about drag’n'drop than via the menus? I doubt it, but after that dragging the scrollbar exploit (http://www.google.com/search?q=IE+drag+scrollbar+exploit), I suppose anything is possible.

Btw, for some time (since SP2 I think) IE has exhibited different behaviour re spaces when adding bookmarklets using either the menus, or dragging. Often that means that dragged bookmarklets get their spaces converted to “%20″s.

Alas, I think that breaks some of your bookmarklets (though there may be other factors: despite liberally stealing your code, I don’t anywhere near fully understand JS. Do you use spaces for functionality, or only readability, for example?). In IE6 SP2 many of the bookmarklets on your zap.html page, for example, only work for me when used from the page, not when saved as a Favourite (though sometimes whether dragging, or using the menus, makes a difference). “Zap colours”, as an easy example, works from the page, but not from the Links bar (howsoever put there). Works fine in Opera.

I managed to hack around my very basic ones to regain cross-browser functionality, even with SP2, but I don’t pretend to understand what’s going on. (I had to remove the spaces to get my GoogleAnon ‘port’ of your “toggle google look” bookmarklet to work under SP2).

I hope you have enough residual interest in IE (or at least in cross-browser compatibility) to figure it out ;)

Once again, once you start *really* using Firefox, you’ll wonder why people use IE, for anything other than Windows Update.

Cheers,
Steve
Web Application Developer

That just doesn’t make any sense.

By the way, what’s firefox limit? (I don’t feel like testing it… haha)