GWT Image Drag and Drop on IE9 not working - image

I'm using GWT 2.5 and I want to make some images in one Panel Draggable and Dropable in another Panel. This is working fine on Firefox, but on IE9 it just don't want to work.
I searched really almost all the day, and didn't find any solution for that. The best threads I found were these here:
Drag and Drop in GWT 2.4
GWT native drag & drop - DragStartEvent not firing on IE9
The difference is that I'm dragging Images, an not Labels. So this could be the problem.
So the code looks something like this:
// Draggable Image
final Image img = new Image(imageName);
img.addDragStartHandler(new DragStartHandler() {
#Override
public void onDragStart(final DragStartEvent event) {
event.setData("text", img.getUrl());
}
});
img.getElement().setDraggable(Element.DRAGGABLE_TRUE);
Then I put it in my "source" panel:
// Image in the source container
wunschContainer = new AbsolutePanel();
img.setPixelSize(size, size);
wunschContainer.add(img, left, top);
The Images are displayed correctly (Firefox and IE9)
The Target Panel looks like this (it's a subclass of AbsolutePanel and implements HasDragOverHandlers and HasDropHandlers)
// Event-handlers for the target container.
this.addDragOverHandler(new DragOverHandler() {
#Override
public void onDragOver(final DragOverEvent event) {
}
});
this.addDropHandler(new DropHandler() {
#Override
public void onDrop(final DropEvent event) {
event.preventDefault();
final String data = event.getData("text");
/* ... some more handling ..., creates an image to be displayed here */
add(image, left, top);
}
});
In Firefox, when I drag the image, the dragging image is displayed under the mouse pointer. On IE9 I can't see an image at all, just a symbol (circle with a slash on it, this "not allowed" symbol). And when I release the mouse button, then nothing happen. I checked also with "F12" that I was using the IE9-mode, and no compatibility mode.
I really don't know what the problem is. The code seems ok (works on FF). Is there a problem making DnD with GWT-Images? The interesting part is, that the "onDragStart()" methode is being fired. But the "drag" is not being done.
Oh, I'm using GWT devmode to test this. Can this be a problem?
I'd like to solve this using only GWT. Or should I go and use another library, like gwt-dnd? Does anybody got plain GWT DnD working on IE9? I can't believe I'm the first one trying that :-(.

So, I tried really a lot of things, and I came across with a solution.
The problem seems to be in the "onDragOver()" method. As I posted in my original question, I have an empty implementation of the method:
this.addDragOverHandler(new DragOverHandler() {
#Override
public void onDragOver(final DragOverEvent event) {
}
});
As this is how I found in many pages. The method must be present, or else the Drag n Drop wont work. But it seems that for IE I need even to prevent the default behaviour (or do something else. Just logging the method was not "something"). So I added a "event.preventDefault();" to the method, and now it works.
this.addDragOverHandler(new DragOverHandler() {
#Override
public void onDragOver(final DragOverEvent event) {
event.preventDefault();
}
});
Just strange, that I couldn't find this information anywhere. This is hopefully useful for somebody else 8-).

I have been having the same issue with IE9 using GWT 2.6 and I have found that setting the data in the onDragStart puts IE9 off. All other browsers work fine. So I ended up doing the following:
this.addDragStartHandler(new DragStartHandler(){
#Override
public void onDragStart(DragStartEvent event) {
if(!isIE9()){
event.setData(RangeSliderControl.KEY, key); // This causes IE9 to not work
}
}}
);
and off course I have added the isIE9() method to my code as follows:
/**
* Gets the name of the used browser.
*/
public static boolean isIE9() {
return (getBrowserName().indexOf("msie 9.0") != -1);
};
/**
* Gets the name of the used browser.
*/
public static native String getBrowserName() /*-{
return navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
}-*/;

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