Time for action – making our code compatible with IE

In this example we will recreate our flag example so that it works as intended in IE.

  1. Resave the canvas.html page as canvas-explorer.html and add a reference to the explorercanvas library in the <head> of the page:
    <!--[if IE]>
  <script src="js/excanvas.compiled.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
  2. Now change the script at the bottom so that it appears like this (new/changed code is shown in bold):
    var canvas = document.getElementById("c"), draw = function(context) { context.fillStyle = "#039"; context.fillRect(50, 50, 400, 200); context.beginPath(); context.strokeStyle = "#fff"; context.lineWidth = 50; context.moveTo(250, 50); context.lineTo(250, 250); context.moveTo(50, 150); context.lineTo(450, 150); context.moveTo(50, ...

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