gskinner/EaselJS — Issue #83: IE Browser Support via ExplorerCanvas integration
Author: jmwhite999
Created: 2011-10-31 10:14:22+00:00
State: open

I know there is already an issue #55 (about trying to load the easel.js via IE and throwing errors).
As daniellmb notes in that issue post:
"Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 still make up about 57% of the browser market."
You really HAVE TO DO SOMETHING about IE support if you expect Easel.js to move out of the
"experimental" code and into the browser mainstream. (sorry to have to shout but no way to bold)

Of course IE6-8 doesn't have canvas support, but here is my proposal -
there is a project that uses javascript and Microsoft's IE proprietary vml scripting to simulate canvas events.
It's called explorercanvas:
http://excanvas.sourceforge.net/
Yes you take a performance hit but sometimes you can get canvas stuff to run using this library. At least its something..
Is there any chance that the easel.js code could be annotated to show where explorercanvas code could be substituted for easel.js code if the browser detected is IE?