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Have you tried using filter? Apparently, at least if you're wiling to do 
the matrix math in Raphael, it's possible to do transformations with 
ie's filters.
There was one library that managed to do it.
http://www.useragentman.com/blog/2010/03/09/cross-browser-css-transforms-even-in-ie/

~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]

On 11-01-11 02:39 AM, Dmitry Baranovskiy wrote:
> Not in 2.0. I was about to include foreignObject support, but found
> two major issues:
> 1. In Opera scaling works really bad: scales text like bitmap, not
> like vector.
> 2. In VML you can�t apply transformations at all.
>
> Without transformations I found foreignObject on the edge of useless.
> You can always overlay Rapha�l surface with<div>.
>
> On 11 Jan, 18:28, Clifford Heath<clifford.he...@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On 10/01/2011, at 5:55 PM, John Mettraux wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 05:47:32PM +1100, Clifford Heath wrote:
>>>> It should be simple to change foreignObject to survive being called  
>>>> with
>>>> no element, and to return an empty parent object I can append to.
>>>> Does that request make sense to you?
>>> It does. For when do you need that ?
>> When you said "It does", I thought you meant "it does make sense". :)
>>
>> Just to follow up, I walked through your code and found it already
>> handles being called with no element. You can call foreignObject
>> and appendChild a new node afterward, or you can create a new
>> unattached node to pass to foreignObject. You probably knew that,
>> but it wasn't obvious to me.
>>
>> Dmitry, can I ask that John Mettraux' patch be incorporated into R2.0?
>>
>> Clifford Heath.