PaintWeb in Internet Explorer

Article published on:26 June 2010, 20:08

Hello world!

Three days ago we received great news from Microsoft: the third platform preview release of Internet Explorer 9 includes support for the Canvas 2D Context API. Canvas comes into IE 9 together with numerous other platform improvements.

These days I have been working on my open source project, PaintWeb. I am quite excited to see it running quite well in MSIE 9.

Go ahead and try the PaintWeb demo page in Internet Explorer 9!

What works? Almost everything. Known issues:

• The globalCompositeOperation property is not yet supported by MSIE 9. The Color mixer visualization looks a bit weird because of this.
• If you change the canvasElem.style.width/height properties the Canvas element is cleared. This is wrong and breaks the implementation of image load and zoom. Check a minimal test case.
• The PaintWeb integration into TinyMCE demo page fails to work. It seems that TinyMCE 3.2.5 fails to work properly in MSIE 9. I shall upgrade it to the latest version, and thus update the PaintWeb plugin as well.

You may also check the PaintWeb change log, for more details.

Any feedback is welcome!

Published in: canvas, html5, microsoft, msie, paintweb, tinymce.