Possible to get Excanvas to work in IE 8?

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André Miranda picture André Miranda · Jun 2, 2009 · Viewed 23.1k times · Source

I used to work on a jQuery plugin named 'BeautyTips' and it was working just fine. But, since I've installed IE 8, this plugin stop working because it needs Excanvas to make IE draw the vectors, images etc.

I've tried to download the newer version of Excanvas but it's not working at all...

Answer

Javier picture Javier · Jun 2, 2009

The new 'standards' mode of IE8 turns off some nonstandard features. Among them VML, which is used by excanvas. I just set for IE7 'standards' mode, so it still works.

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" />

Frustrating, but i don't know of any advantage brought up by IE8.

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