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How To Get Around the Holes In IE9 Beta's Implementation of Canvas

Posted by timothy on from the canvas-the-neighborhood dept.

mudimba writes "Microsoft has made grand announcements about how great their implementation of the HTML5 canvas specification is. However, while I was porting a large HTML5 application to work with IE9 beta I found that there are some key features missing. Workarounds are provided where possible. (Disclaimer: I am the author of the submitted article.)"

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  1. Microsoft Responds by TimSneath · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hi there, thank you for the post. I just wanted to add a few observations on behalf of the Internet Explorer team.

    Firstly, no browser offers a perfect implementation of the Canvas 2D API specification to date - we've documented and shared a few examples from our test suites here: http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/ietestcenter/#html5Canvas

    As has been well noted, the IE9 build tested was our beta.

    Secondly, in response to the specific issues raised, Giorgio Sardo has posted a response on his blog here:
          http://blogs.msdn.com/b/giorgio/archive/2011/01/14/building-great-browsers-together.aspx

    We'll update this entry over time.

    Thanks for listening,

    Tim Sneath | Microsoft Corp.