IE11 breaks all hotspot interaction

  • I've just upgraded my work machine to Windows 8.1 with Internet Explorer 11. As expected, it finally adds WebGL support, but - disaster! None of the hotspots in my project, or as far as I can tell any of the examples on krpano.com, are responding to click or touch events on HTML5 panos. The mouse pointer correctly changes to a hand when it's over the hotspots, but nothing happens when they're clicked. It affects both the Metro and desktop versions of IE11.

    Can anyone else confirm this, please?

    I've no idea if this is a serious bug in IE11 that can't be worked around, or if it's possible to update krpano to fix the problem. On the plus side, the Metro browser does now allow plug-ins, so Flash can at least be used as a fallback if we have to wait for Microsoft to fix this.

  • Hi,

    I have just updated too to Window 8.1 and can see the problem too.

    Typically Microsoft - first providing only non-standard touch/gesture interfaces and then changing them in an incompatible way with every small release!

    I don't know yet what Microsoft has changed again, but I will look for it and provide a fixed krpano version of course.

    At the moment it seems changing this line in the html file:

    Code
    <meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="IE=edge" />

    to this one:

    Code
    <meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="IE=10" />

    would bypass the problem (but this will also disable the WebGL and HTML5-Fullscreen support that the IE11 would normally provide).

    Best regards,
    Klaus

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