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15th March 2009 - Link Blog

Fixing IE by porting Canvas to Flash. Implementing canvas using Flash is an obvious step, but personally I’m much more interested in an SVG renderer using Flash that finally brings non-animated SVGs to IE.

Posted 15th March 2009 at 1:34 pm

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