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by JeffJenkins 5719 days ago
How do you know whether it was not supporting IE and a broken bookmarklet that caused your IE numbers to be so low? If I used IE and your service had a poor experience I'd probably use another bookmarking service.

edit: also, if the service is still new, you might largely be getting early adopters and not supporting IE could inhibit growth.
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StavrosK 5719 days ago
We do support IE now, so those numbers should start to stabilise, but still, the percentage is very low. It probably is early adopters we're getting, but I don't think there's a way for the bookmarklet to work with IE in the way it works with other browsers. I've tried disabling all security settings, but IE still won't allow JS access to the iframe.
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JeffJenkins 5719 days ago
I did a quick test with google's "Note In Reader" bookmarklet in IE8. The first time I clicked it I got an error about a pop-up being blocked. I clicked to allow the pop-up (which caused the page to refresh) and then it seems to have worked. It brought up a pop-up window which let me add a comment on the page I was on. It's definitely functional, but not ideal.
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StavrosK 5719 days ago
Hmm, I wonder how they did that. Maybe the popup has different permissions than the iframe, or maybe they pass the selected text. Unfortunately, their code is obfuscated, but thanks for the tip.
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