Internet Explorer 9, IE 8, alternative content

[Julien Elias]

Hello,

First thank you to the Google Web Designer team, a new tool is always a good news.

Question: What's the best way to display alternative content on browser not supported by Google Web Designer (IE9, IE8, etc) ?

[lois....@gmail.com]

Hello,
Same question.
Thank you

[Niklas Hallgren]

Is IE9 not supported? I understand that if you use some 3d-effects that won't be supported - but what about simple movement & alpha transitions etc. It's a huge bummer if you can't get support for those kind of animations in at least IE9. If not then this tool won't be a tool that you could use for real production...

[Kevin]

It's not that GWD does not support IE9 it's the enabler.js that communicates with your ad that Google has chosen not to support.  My team moved back to Flash ads, after months of HTML5 ads we made using GWD.  It was fun but for some reason they flipped the switch in their Enabler.js.  Our ads get too much traffic.  Back to Flash it is.  

It was nice while it lasted.  (I work for a large company who still uses IE9 on their machines, updating means weeks or months of testing from IT and $$$, unfortunately.)

[William Grose]

GWD uses a lot of css3 features, and currently there isn't a facility to detect which of those features are being used. For ad serving GWD creatives, we detect if the browser supports css3 animations and render the ad if they do. If not, we show the backup image. 

[Brandon Tenner]

This may be a stupid question but where would we enter the backup image?

[William Grose]

You currently upload the backup image separately into Doubleclick Studio but that brings up a good point that we should add it to the published zip somehow.

[Brandon Tenner]

Thanks William, that isn't an option for those of us that are using DoubleClick for Publishers Small Business.  I enter my GWD ads as a 3rd party, which means there isn't an option for the fallback image.  Adding it to the GWD published zip would be great!

[Jaz]

Hi Brandon,

I've submitted this as a GWD customer feature request, thanks so much for the feedback!

jaz
Jasmine Rogers
Program Manager, GWD

[stre...@gmail.com]

http://www.quirksmode.org/css/condcom.html

"Conditional comments only work in IE, and are thus excellently suited to give special instructions meant only for IE. They are supported from IE 5 up until IE9 (inclusive)."

I have had success with:

<!--[if !IE]> -->
<div id="start"><embed width="1000" height="300" src="/custom/files/Startbanner.html"></div>
<!-- <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE]>
<div id="start"><img src="/custom/img/startlanding.jpg" /></div>
<![endif]-->

where Startbanner.html contains GWD stuff that is shown only if "!IE" ie not IE5-IE9. If "IE" ie IE5-IE9 a static jpg is shown.

[scott.sc...@gmail.com]

I wonder if this will work in an ad server, woudl have to load a backup image on the same domain i imagine.