Bug: VML: script injection causes IE to fail on if (!document.namespaces) about cufon HOT 6 OPEN

An even more serious problem is probably the use of document.write(). While it would be possible to make cufon.js work without it, I don't really see the point. One possible use case may be loading cufon only for browsers that do not support @font-face, but you'd almost certainly experience a delay if you loaded cufon.js that way.

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I've added the xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml namespace attribute and a strict doctype - and my dynamically loaded Cufon init script works beautifully in IE when I browse between pages - but the font replacement does not occur when I hit Ctrl-R or the Reload button.

It has me stumped at the moment. ...Arrr!

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Update: It seems that three things are needed for sorry old MSIE 8 >:

1. adding xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml namespace to the <head/>
2. Strict <!DOCTYPE>
3. Hard-coded <script> link to the Cufon script.

Bottom-line: lazy-loading cufon seems impossible in MSIE 8 >

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This should be rechecked again since #232 introduced support for asynchronous (delayed) loading.

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I'm not sure that the commit #232 fixes the issue. In IE9, I get an "unspecified error" here:

var ns = document.namespaces;

(line 967 in current latest version)

I assume this is a symptom of the same issue as above, but I could be missing something here as I'm no JS expert. I am using deferred loading on my site, basically using this guy's technique (his first example): http://stackoverflow.com/a/5853358

Let me know if you need more info to help debug this issue (or let me know if I'm missing something super obvious).

Oh, oddly enough, refreshing the page makes the error magically no longer occur, and the font-replacement proceeds as usual. :P

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@amatecha I'd like to get to the bottom of this. Can you prepare a minimal test case, just one html file (and CSS/JS as needed) with everything in it and create a gist? You can use "Vegur" font and omit it from your file as it is part of this project already.

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