On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com wrote:
I looked at the ie9 preview. You have to set the windows version to 7, but then it needs ie8 and "directx 2d" installed.
I've added a win7 verb to winetricks, and would accept an ie8 verb patch if someone sent it, but I suspect DirectX 2D might be a tough nut to crack.
IE 9 is also going to also need DirectWrite support, third link below.
A couple of nice articles about Direct2D at blogs.msdn
http://blogs.msdn.com/directx/archive/2009/05/12/2d-drawing-apis-in-windows.... http://blogs.msdn.com/directx/archive/2009/12/12/animated-2d-graphics-for-ui... http://blogs.msdn.com/directx/archive/2009/11/18/internet-explorer-announces... and http://blogs.msdn.com/directx/archive/tags/Direct2D/default.aspx
Tom