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		MortenK on Aug 4, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Free icons for any object in the world I'm on a laptop with Internet explorer 8 and is getting the message that "Internet explorer does not support the NounProject", and later down on the page "Currently, Internet explorer is the only browser that cannot display the format that is best suited for this site". Does anyone with access to the site, know what this technology / format is, that IE 8 doesn't support?

justinlatimer on Aug 4, 2011 [–]

The icons are all rendered as vectors using SVG which IE < 9 doesn't understand.

reven on Aug 4, 2011 | | [–]

Is this not polyfillable with some add-on? I am sure I read that somewhere.

andrewcooke on Aug 4, 2011 | | | [–]

http://code.google.com/p/svgweb/ is a nice project that implements svg in flash when necessary. it would probably work here.

MortenK on Aug 4, 2011 | | [–]

I see, thanks!

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