Abobe Edge Animate and Internet Explorer 8

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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