Possible to get Excanvas to work in IE 8?

Question

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 1

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.

Answer 2

Yes, I have got excanvas working in IE8 standards mode (only tested for the usage we required). In the function CanvasRenderingContext2D_ I commented out the line:

//el.style.overflow = 'hidden';//fix IE8

The width and height of the node object el was 0px by 0px, so not setting the overflow to hidden made the rendered item visible.

I did change the order of the creation of the canvasPieTimer a bit, to get the required result. I hope this is helpful.