title: Problem getting excanvas to use getContext in IE8
body: <p>I am trying to implement excanvas in order to ensure canvas tags work in IE8 as well as all the other browsers we use here.  I am having an issue getting getContext to work in IE8.  I have read about the need to us the G_vmlCanvasManager.initElement routine when dynamically creating canvas objects in the DOM, however I cannot even get statically created objects to work in IE8.  I can tell the canvas is create properly because the border appears.  All other browsers have no issues. Here is the code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div align="right"&gt;
  &lt;canvas id="myCanvas" width="200" height="100" style="border:1px solid #c3c3c3;"&gt;
  Your browser does not support the canvas element.
  &lt;/canvas&gt;
  
  &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
  
  var c=document.getElementById("myCanvas");
  if (typeof window.G_vmlCanvasManager!="undefined") { 
      c=window.G_vmlCanvasManager.initElement(c);
      var cxt=c.getContext("2d");
     }else 
      var cxt=c.getContext("2d");
  
  cxt.fillStyle="#FF0000";
  cxt.fillRect(0,0,150,75);
  
  &lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks for any help you can give.</p>