Stuart,
>>i) aspect ratio always ends up 1:1 (a square).
It should not. Can you test again? CuteEditor just keep the image original aspect ratio.
ii) while dragging aspect ratio is not maintained
By default, IE doesn't have the function to preserve the aspect ratio when you drag and resize an image.
We wrote our workaround to this issue.
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