Developers eager to patch up a perceived feature shortcoming in Internet Explorer 8 have developed a way to make Adobe's Flash plug-in instead.
Developers struggling with that shortcoming have come up with a solution -- use the technology Canvas was intended to replace. Developer Grant Jones has found a way to create a way to allow Internet Explorer to interpret Canvas by using Flash instead.
We've said much of Canvas; the ability to draw rich animations through the browser without the aid of Flash. Canvas was written into the HTML 5 specifications as a way to move rich animations into HTML itself. However, Internet Explorer is the only browser that has not not yet committed to the technology. In other words, the world's leading browser is holding up mass adoption of the canvas element.
This isn't the first time developers have jumped on board to attempt to solve Internet Explorer's lack of modern standards support. In fact, ExplorerCanvas is an open-source project to bring Canvas functionality to the lacking browser. Luckily, the browser is extensible enough to allow these sorts of hacks. Meanwhile, there is no word from Microsoft as to whether future versions of the browser will start incorporating what many of its competitors are already doing.
For more information on Flash Canvas, head over to Aza Raskin's blog where Grant Jones goes over it in detail.
[Hat tip to Ajaxian]
