[annotator-dev] Annotator in IE8

[Andrew Magliozzi]

Hey Nick,

Thanks for the clarification on the IE8 status.  Dustin, let me know if I
can help with this.

Cheers,
Andrew



On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 5:56 AM, Nick Stenning <nick at whiteink.com> wrote:

> Andrew Magliozzi wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Thanks for your email.  I don't use IE8 and haven't dealt with that bug.
> > I've cc'd two brighter developers who lead the Annotator Dev team.
> > Randall and Nick, could you two help shed some light on this issue:
> >
>
> >>> Can you tell me what the status is of getting Annotator to work in
> >>> IE8? This is a blocker for us
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Due to the lack of support for the W3C Range specification, IE 6-8
> aren't natively supported by the Annotator.
>
> That said, Annotator should automatically pull in IERange [1] if it
> detects a DOM without support for W3C Range [2] so if that's not working
> for you, I'd be interested to see the error and
> have a discussion about getting it working on the `annotator-dev`
> mailing list (in CC here) [3].
>
> I'll be honest, I don't regularly test Annotator support in IE8 but
> provided that IERange works as advertised it shouldn't be too hard to
> get it working.
>
> Best,
> Nick
>
> [1]: https://code.google.com/p/ierange/
> [2]:
> https://github.com/okfn/annotator/blob/2fee8/src/annotator.coffee#L732-L733
> [3]: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/annotator-dev
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