I am trying to use the HTML5 canvas element to draw some arcs and circles - this works perfectly in FF but IE8 does not seem to support it.
Now, there exist Javascript libraries which seem to make IE8 work well with Canvas. An example can be found here.
I have read their entire source but I cannot understand how they are making Canvas work with IE8. Can somebody please throw some light on the method used?
You can try fxCanvas: https://code.google.com/p/fxcanvas/
It implements almost all Canvas API within flash shim.
If you need to use IE8, you can try this JavaScript library for vector graphics. It is like solving the "canvas" and "SVG" incompatibilities of IE8 at the same time.
I have just try it in a fast example and it works correctly. I don't know how legible is the source code but I hope it helps you. As they said in its site, the library is compatible with very old explorers.
Raphaël currently supports Firefox 3.0+, Safari 3.0+, Chrome 5.0+, Opera 9.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+.
