[annotator-dev] Annotator + Plugin in IE8

Mon Oct 21 16:29:03 UTC 2013

The error about compareDocument Position is the first one to tackle. It
could be causing the other failures.

I would check whether that's supported by IE8 and, if not, what polyfill
might provide it.
On Oct 21, 2013 7:30 AM, "Steph Skardal" <steph at endpoint.com> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> I saw Nick's response regarding ierange, but I'm not sure how to verify
> whether or not IERange is being pulled in. There was nothing in the IE
> developer tools that indicates issues related to IERange. Can you elaborate
> on what type of errors are expected if IERange is the source of the problem?
>
> Steph
>
>
>
> On 10/21/2013 09:40 AM, Andrew Magliozzi wrote:
>
> 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?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Steph
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/16/2013 10:50 AM, Steph Skardal wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to get annotator plus a plugin to work in IE8.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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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