When coding the admin for PowerGallery, I used the MooTools Sortables plugin to handle the drag & drop re-ordering of the images in the gallery.

This code worked great in Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. But then I tested in good ‘ole Internet Explorer . Oddly enough, IE6 worked fine when I tried to drag an image around. IE7 and IE8 were a different story though. When I clicked (and held) on an image and start dragging, the image would move a few pixels then freeze in place. If I released the mouse click, the image would then follow my mouse around until I clicked again and it would drop the image where indicated. Weird stuff to say the least, and definitely not the behavior I wanted.

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