Explorercanvas brings the same functionality to internet explorer 8 and older. Ie compatible canvas drag and drop with jquery and excanvas. For example, if you load an image and specify the optional size parameters in its constructor, you will have to use the naturalwidth and naturalheight properties of the created instance to properly calculate things like crop and scale regions, rather. Modern browsers like firefox, safari, chrome and opera support the html5 canvas tag to allow 2d commandbased drawing. Ie8 slightly changed how it does vml so we had to do some fixes. You also need to download and include the opentip css. The main reason for this release is internet explorer 8. Contribute to gerhobbeltexcanvas development by creating an account on github.
Ie7 and ie8 and in order to use html5 canvas, excanvas also known as explorer canvas is used. The drawimage method uses the source elements intrinsic size in css pixels when drawing. We wanted to make sure that things worked ok in the final release of ie8 so we held of the release until ie8 was out. Explorercanvas brings the same functionality to internet explorer. Modern browsers like firefox, safari, chrome and opera support the html5 canvas tag to allow 2d. It is an open source, apachelicensed javascript library that implements the canvas api in internet explorer. Want to be notified of new releases in arvexplorercanvas. Use explorercanvas to make ies vml act like a canvas like object. Here mudassar ahmed khan has explained with example, how to use html5 canvas in internet explorer browser versions 7 and 8 i. Firefox, safari and opera 9 support the canvas tag to allow 2d commandbased drawing. Html5 canvas is not supported in internet explorer browser versions 7 and 8 i. If nothing happens, download github desktop and try again.