Timeplot Fans: IE Joins the Club
Jan 7th, 2008 by ryanlee
And you don’t need to change a thing. It gives me great pleasure to inform you that your existing timeplots should simply function, now, when you browse to them in Internet Explorer 6 or 7. Go ahead, go and look, maybe give it a shift-reload to clear that now-untrue incompatibility message. Or visit Timeplot’s page and look over those examples once more.
Thanks to Stefano’s intentional design around canvas and his clean implementation, using ExplorerCanvas to broaden Timeplot’s reach was mostly a finishing touch. Some caveats: transparency effects will not work, and it’s on the slow side compared to other browsers, which is perhaps why mouse value tracking is not as smooth as with other browsers.
Credit is due to Sarfaraz Rydhan for submitting patches that would have accomplished much the same thing, and we certainly would have accepted them had we not just had the same thought. Thanks, Sarfaraz, and thanks to our other contributors who continue to help us improve on Timeplot.