IE9 Preview 2 Does Not Support Canvas
On Wednesday Microsoft announced the release of the second platform preview edition of Microsoft Internet Explorer 9, and like the first release this edition also does not support the canvas tag.
Despite calls from developers worldwide on forums, blog posts and Microsoft’s own IE blog we are no closer to knowing whether Canvas will be eventually implemented in Internet Explorer 9, but early indications are not optimistic.
At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco on Wednesday Microsoft’s Giorgio Sardo told listeners that “Microsoft believes HTML5 is the future of the Web,” but would not commit to support of the HTML5 Canvas element. The attendees were asked about whether they wanted Canvas support in IE9 and there was a room full of raised hands – including Sardo himself.
According to The Register, after the panel discussion Sardo confirmed that Microsoft has not committed one way or another on Canvas.
There is still hope.
Comments
Thomas
I am a total newbie to all this but why is it so? I mean is it another war of standards, pure ideology/fanaticism? It seems to me canvas support should be much easier to implement than any of the vml stuff IE supports. May be somebody can explain this. Or may be I will have a quick look at Wikipedia first…
Posted on May 17, 2010
Professor Cloud
I’m not a newbie, and I have no idea why it’s such a big stretch to implement Canvas in IE. It’s straightforward 2d drawing, and not a massive spec.
I believe IE9 will support SVG, so a good chunk of the code has already been done surely?
Maybe it’s just corporate oil-tanker-steering syndrome. I’m assuming the IE programmers are as good as the ones working on Firefox, Chrome, Opera etc?
Posted on May 19, 2010
SpliFF
Perhaps Silverlight has something to do with it? Maybe they are afraid it will render Silverlight even more obsolete than it already is? Perhaps it also explains why they took so long to get around to SVG?
Posted on June 4, 2010
Maker of interesting things
When will the madness end? I personally am sick to death – to the point of feeling physically and mentally frustrated and exasperated as a result of internet explorer, and Microsoft’s continuing detachment from the real world of production web development.
They never really ‘got’ the web in the early days, and that’s their own fault – shame on them! but literally *decades* later, the cycle continues, right at a time when the browser platforms are reaching quite a nice synergy, each with its own niche.
How many millions of man hours have been spent – not to mention wasted – across the globe fixing, patching, kludging, reworking and hacking around incompatibilities, inconsistencies and completely proprietary behaviours and capabilities of IE’s rendering and script engines?
I wouldn’t mind so much, but for one thing. No one has ever actually come forward from the dark corner’s of Microsoft’s browser labs, and explained “why” to my knowledge. We can all make assumptions, we can all read between the lines, but has Microsoft ever actually stood up and said “sorry about the (non) standards compliance issues our browser has been suffering from for the last 10 years or more, the reason its been like this is because of X and we were wrong”. This would almost make it OK in my mind, and should ideally be followed by words to the effect of …”we are going to fix it by doing Y”… I don’t see this happening though.
Thoughts?
Posted on June 7, 2010
Jimmyt1988
Just a small random niggle that i had to get out:
quote: Canvas in IE. It’s straightforward 2d drawing, and not a massive spec.
Canvas is also a 3d drawing platform.
Sorry, just had to correct it for some reason.
Posted on February 23, 2011
Jimmyt1988
And it does support canvas:
http://www.dhteumeuleu.com/lab/m3D.html
Posted on February 23, 2011
Andi Smith
Jimmyt1988, this article is a year old. IE have announced support since…
Posted on February 23, 2011
Related news