Adobe Community: Message List - Abobe Edge Animate and Internet Explorer 8

Re: Abobe Edge Animate and Internet Explorer 8

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 08:09:57 GMT

apparently some guy said to me there is code you can put into the html page of adobe edge that ie8 will read and you can use your animation

i still feel apple's decision to not support flash in it's browsers is very annoying and does nothing to encourage me to go apple

i was an apple mac user in the 1990s but i would never go back to them

Re: Abobe Edge Animate and Internet Explorer 8

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 18:02:42 GMT

I was able to do this. I just cannot for the life of me remember how. I know, big help. I made a Flash backup of the HTML5 for IE8 and it worked.

Re: Abobe Edge Animate and Internet Explorer 8

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 16:46:13 GMT

lcg_2012, I'd like to do what you suggest -- make an HTML5 animation and a Flash animation version to use as the backup for people who won't (or can't) upgrade their browsers from IE8 or lower.

Any thoughts as to the best way to go about this?

Wondering if it would be possible to somehow "hack" the down-level stage code that Edge Animate generates in order to load a SWF file instead of just an image. Has anyone attempted this?

Re: Abobe Edge Animate and Internet Explorer 8

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 30 May 2013 13:44:15 GMT

Gaviway, you're kind of looking at it backwards. IE8 has a steadily declining market share. 5.3% as April 2013. IE9 came out March 14, 2011. So IE8 is at best 2 years old.

HTML5 is modern coding that IE8 was never intended to play because Microsoft tends to wait to see what Apple and Google do with their browsers and then waits a couple years to copy them and add modern functionality, even then they do it poorly.

So Adobe didn't drop the ball, they just can't make modern code work on an old browser, no matter how hard they try. Kinda like trying to play an MP3 in '57 Corvette. It isn't happening.

What you could do is make an HTML5 animation and a Flash animation and then use the Flash as the backup to the HTML5.

The web is viewed more on mobile devices that don't play flash than on computers these days so as much as I love Flash, it is essentially dead.

Re: Abobe Edge Animate and Internet Explorer 8

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 30 May 2013 13:40:14 GMT

I suppose you could make a detection to have Flash for IE and Edge for the others.

Re: Abobe Edge Animate and Internet Explorer 8

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 30 May 2013 09:53:33 GMT

Yet again adobe have stumped us by not making it known that they did not support IE8 for Adobe Edge for animations.

Pain in the neck - as a lot of librarys, free internet cafes etc use IE8. Essentially for users who are not savy they will think that the website is down. i've got to go back and take the animation parts out of the index.html - which is essentially why i did it in Edge in the first place. Waste of time. Stick ing with Flash and hoping people will gravitate to PC mobile devices whtat support most browsers.

Re: Abobe Edge Animate and Internet Explorer 8

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 05:26:39 GMT

Hi.

Altough I've checked the option "Google Chrome Frame" neither the preloader nor animation is loaded in IE8--.

Alse I've tried installing manually the Google Chrome Frame but the animation doesn't look good.

I'll use the Poster Image and the Down Level Stage.

Bye.

Erick Rosales

Re: Abobe Edge Animate and Internet Explorer 8

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:32:05 GMT

Thanks Sarrah for your help with this issue.

Re: Abobe Edge Animate and Internet Explorer 8

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:19:26 GMT

Figured it out. While I had my poster file selected in the Poster: area of the Stage, I had to click on the Edit... next to Down-level Stage to connect the two. Working now.

Re: Abobe Edge Animate and Internet Explorer 8

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:04:58 GMT

I must be doing something wrong. I have a selected a poster.png to display, I have Chrome framework selected and it show s NOTHING. Any other hints how to get that alternative content to show?

Re: Abobe Edge Animate and Internet Explorer 8

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:08:34 GMT

Hi, kyboone21-

No, I am saying that the Google Chrome Frame... option will access the Chrome Frame and allow your animations to work in IE8. Otherwise, it should display the contents of the down-level stage (e.g. your poster image).

Thanks,

-Elaine

Re: Abobe Edge Animate and Internet Explorer 8

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:08:15 GMT

Nope, you don't have to use Chrome Frame. The option is just there if you chose to use it, but the downlevel poster will be available without it.

Thanks,

Sarah

Re: Abobe Edge Animate and Internet Explorer 8

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:01:33 GMT

Are you saying that the "Google Chrome Frame..." option must be checked in order for the down-level stage poster image to work in IE8?

Re: Abobe Edge Animate and Internet Explorer 8

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 17:22:37 GMT

Hey Kryboone,

Animations do not run in IE8, however you can set up a poster image which will give a static view of your composition.

Cheers,

Sarah

Re: Abobe Edge Animate and Internet Explorer 8

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 17:16:38 GMT

Hi, kyboone21-

IE8 is considered a down-level browser, so it will display the down-level stage unless you have the Google Chrome Frame option selected in the Publish Settings dialog.

-Elaine

Abobe Edge Animate and Internet Explorer 8

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 13:04:11 GMT

Are ther any issues with published files generated from Adobe Edge Animate running in IE-8? I created a test banner that works fine in IE-9, Firefox and Chrome, but our IT section states it does not show up in an IE-8 browser. Any suggestions for this issue.