It looks like IE does not have canvas

Question

I would like to implement a simple drawing tool that could run across most of the browsers, but it's not working on IE. Any one have an idea on how can I achieve maximum browser compatibility?

possible duplicate of [How can I use the HTML5 canvas element in IE?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1332501/how-can-i-use-the-html5-canvas-element-in-ie) — msw, Aug 19 '10 at 06:14
Internet Explorer 9 is the first version to support the canvas element. Support seems pretty complete and my rendering experiments have been consistent with Chrome and FireFox. — Brian Nickel, Jul 30 '11 at 06:00

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 19 '10 at 06:14

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Check out Raphael. VML on IE and SVG on other browsers. They claim:

Raphaël currently supports Firefox 3.0+, Safari 3.0+, Chrome 5.0+, Opera 9.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+.

answered Aug 19 '10 at 06:14

slebetman

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 19 '10 at 06:20

You can use explorer canvas to support canvas element in Internet Explorer (including IE6)

To use it, just add this to your document:

<head>
<!--[if IE]><script src="excanvas.js"></script><![endif]-->
</head>

Further instructions (for specific versions) are here

It looks like IE does not have canvas

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