[web] HTML5 Canvas IE9 support

They seem to work fine in Google Chrome. I can't say the same for IE (I'm using XP too). I'm not entirely sure why the canvas element's being used at all, especially given the fact that you have been able to do stuff like this for years now using Java. Seems a little redundant to me...

As opposed to downloading Silverlight, Java, or Flash... you just download the Internet!

Intrawebz iz de winnar!

[Edited by - Alpha_ProgDes on September 3, 2010 8:10:56 PM]

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Original post by Sockwave Can IE9 run a complex canvas app, like the ones at Canvas Demos smoothly?

From my (admittedly brief) tests, the IE9 platform preview runs the majority of the canvas demos just as well as Chrome does.

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Original post by Gorax I'm not entirely sure why the canvas element's being used at all, especially given the fact that you have been able to do stuff like this for years now using Java. Seems a little redundant to me...

Except that the Java plugin is a 100MB download, is not available for many portable internet devices, is slow at the best of times, and consistently exhibits drawing problems even on fast browsers and hardware (ever tried scrolling the page while a significant Java applet runs?).

Flash is much better from a performance standpoint, but it doesn't interact well the rest of the browser (no scroll wheel support?), and also isn't available on many devices (and too slow on netbooks).

Direct browser support for accelerated video/audio decoding, along with 2D and 3D graphics, makes all our lives a lot simpler [smile]