Canvas doesn't work in IE6

[Jean-Philippe Encausse]

Hi,
May be this is a stupid question ?

I've installed excanvas.js and declare it in my html file but nothing
append ... There's no errors in Internet Explorer but nothing is drawn
...

http://jphe.free.fr/docs/html/VLDemo1/stars.html

Lines should be drawn between stars ...

Should I install a VML plugin for IE or something like that ?

Best Regards,
Jean-Philippe Encausse

[Eric]

I am having the same issue. I am trying to run any of the test cases
found with the excanvas download bundles, and none of them work. I am
running IE6 on WinXP SP2. Is that version of IE not supported or
something?

Thanks,
--Eric

[Erik Arvidsson]

Works for me. I have the same IE and Windows version.

Do you have the developer toolbar installed? Does your canvas element
have <shape/> elements in it if you inspect the DOM?

--
erik

[Glen Murphy]

Wasn't there also a security patch that disabled VML on IE6? It was
depatched shortly after, I believe.

[Eric]

Hi,

Thanks for the quick reply. I did not have the developer toolbar
installed... didn't know there was one. I installed it, and the page
does have <shape/> elements as children of the <canvas> element.

I know that the excanvas code is running at least somewhat, because the
".getContext("2d")" method call is not creating a JS error similar to
"object does not support method" that it would get without excanvas.

How can I check to see if VML is enabled on my browser? Is there a
website that uses excanvas and is known to be working that I can go to
using my IE browser to test whether it is my browser that is the
problem (likely) or if it is the configuration on my web server (not
likely)?

Thanks again for any help that you all can provide.
--Eric

[Eric]

Hi Glen,

Thanks for the response.

Did not know that VML was disabled on my machine... but apparently it
was. To re-enable it, I ran this command:

regsvr32 "%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\VGX\vgx.dll

Now the examples work for excanvas. Thanks for your help!

--Eric