Unable to bookmark "Press This" in Internet Explorer 8

[evarlese]

In using the most current version of WordPress.org in Internet Explorer 8, users are unable to boomark the "Press This" tool available under Dashboard > Settings > Writing.

To replicate:

1. Visit your Dashboard > Settings > Writing in Internet Explorer 8 (or 9).

2. Place your mouse over the "Press This" button and attempt to right click and Save to your Bookmarks. The right-click will not function.

3. As an alternative, try dragging the "Press This" button to your bookmarks. The button will not drag.

Because Internet Explorer does not allow users to manually add Bookmarks, it is impossible to copy and paste the "Press This" URL into your Bookmarks. Additionally, users cannot copy and paste the Javascript into their Bookmarks: ​http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/1st-question-downloading-a-photo-to-my-sidebar?replies=11#post-664096

This is a problem for WordPress.com users as well.

[dllh]

Adds context click instructions for MSIE user agents

[dllh]

It appears that IE8 doesn't support draggable bookmarklets. I found a few bits online suggesting as much, and testing with a very simple bookmarklet (to rule out the possibility of something within this particular bookmarklet being a problem) supports this diagnosis.

A workaround might be to do for MSIE what we do for Webkit browsers -- showing on context click the bookmarklet script and some instructions for pasting into a new bookmark in the bookmark manager. The attached patch adds such a workaround very broadly (any MSIE user agent, which for the time being is probably ok given that bookmarklet dragging is also hosed in IE9).

Improvements would include version-specific display and perhaps more specific instructions per browser. I'll hold off on such implementations pending ratification of the general approach, though (maybe my proposed workaround is dumb).

[duck_]

Patch looks good.

Original ticket says "Internet Explorer does not allow users to manually add Bookmarks", true or false? Patch suggests otherwise.

[azaozz]

Don't see a problem with dragging the bookmarklet to the "Favorites" bar in IE. As far as I remember it was never possible to add the bookmarklet by dragging it to anywhere else. Still the workaround for webkit can be shown for IE too.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Replying to azaozz:

Don't see a problem with dragging the bookmarklet to the "Favorites" bar in IE.

Dragging is possible in IE 9, but not in IE 8, which doesn't seem to have any option to manually add a bookmark like that.

Not sure if the patch makes any sense therefore, but if it does, the same change also needs to happen in options-writing.php.

[azaozz]

In [19387]:

Extend the workaround for adding the Press This bookmarklet to IE, props dllh SergeyBiryukov, fixes #18487