[annotator-dev] Annotator + Plugin in IE8

Mon Oct 21 13:40:34 UTC 2013

Hi Steph and Annotator-Devs,

If memory serves, @Randall offered to help a week or so back.  Also, Nick
had some suggestions, reproduced here:

Annotator should automatically pull in IERange [1] if it
detects a DOM without support for W3C Range [2].

[1]: https://code.google.com/p/ierange/
[2]:
https://github.com/okfn/annotator/blob/2fee8/src/annotator.coffee#L732-L733

For the group, Steph is reporting the following:

In IE8. error "'compareDocumentPosition' is null or not an object". When a
user tries to highlight / annotate text in IE8, a number of errors are
reported that "'this.viewer.hide' is null or not an object" and
"'this.adder' is null or not an object".

Any ideas what's going on or how we could help Steph?  Her plugin code is
here: https://github.com/stephskardal/h2o-annotator

Cheers,
Andrew

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Steph Skardal <steph at endpoint.com> wrote:

>  Bump. Any help here?
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> Thanks,
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> Steph
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> On 10/16/2013 10:50 AM, Steph Skardal wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I'm trying to get annotator plus a plugin to work in IE8.
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> I've got a proof of concept app up at:
> https://github.com/stephskardal/h2o-annotator. The proof of concept is
> built to emulate functionality that already exists, but on top of the
> annotator plugin. It works as expected in Chrome & Firefox (minus a few
> small CSS issues that I plan to fix later). The proof of concept plugin
> takes some functionality from the categories plugin in that it adds
> additional checkboxes.
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> It doesn't work in IE8. When the page loads in IE8, developer tools
> reports an error "'compareDocumentPosition' is null or not an object". When
> a user tries to highlight / annotate text in IE8, a number of errors are
> reported that "'this.viewer.hide' is null or not an object" and
> "'this.adder' is null or not an object".
>
> I don't know if these errors are related to ierange not being pulled in.
> Can anyone provide guidance on how to get this working in IE8?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steph
>
>
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