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Excanvas is a JavaScript library for bringing the HTML5 Canvas 2D API to versions of Internet Explorer prior to version 9.

Excanvas is a JavaScript library for bringing the HTML5 Canvas 2D API to versions of Internet Explorer prior to version 9 written by Emil Eklund and maintained by Google.

Excanvas implements the canvas API using VML to render the scene. It was written by Emil Eklund and is currently maintained by Google.

Project page: http://excanvas.sourceforge.net/

Original post by Emil: http://me.eae.net/archive/2005/12/29/canvas-in-ie/

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Possible to get Excanvas to work in IE 8?

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…
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SVG rect vs div vs canvas

Just imagine building Google Maps for a large building floor plan with 3000 rooms. I need to display up to 3000 rectangles (the best would be to also be able to render random polygons, but at this point, this is not the biggest issue). Each of them…
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Excanvas for dynamically created canvas elements

Excanvas "for enternet Explorer" is working fine for predefined canvas elements. But when it comes to creating canvas elements dynamically during the script, it will not work... Any ideas??
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Printing excanvas

I can't get IE to print my canvas (generated using excanvas)... I'm using the most recent version of excanvas. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/997831/canvas.html (Note: I already tried having the canvas element already on the page instead of creating it…
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Paper.js with excanvas

I've grown to like paper.js a lot but after realizing that it does not support IE8, I was wondering if it was possible to have paper.js working together with excanvas? Has anyone tested this and are there examples available? Thank you.
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Loading excanvas polyfill via Modernizr.load fails

I'm attempting to load the excanvas polyfill in the page-specific js file for my page. This script file is inserted after the body tag on my page. The odd bit is that if I use