How to "Hack" my Edge Animation for IE8 / IE7?

Question

I know: Adobe Edge Animate is made for mdoern Browsers. But I'm doing a One-Pager complete in Edge Animation (a worldwide known limonade...). So about 10% uses Internet Explorer 8, less IE 7.
I konw: there ist the option in publish settings to give lte IE9 users a shout to install the Chrome Frame Plugin. But seriously: that's not a solution (no one installs a plugin just to see a site. most users CANT install because of the rights at work).
So I have to make my final Edge Animate onepager also work in IE 8. For this I found I can change this file:
myProject_edgePreload.js
then there is a function:
function isCapable(){
          if(hasTransform){
                    if(requiresSVG&&!hasSVG)return!1;
                              return!0
                    }return!1
If I change it (ugly, I know) to this, Internet Explorer loads the animation (instead of the Stage for older Browsers):
function isCapable(){
          return 1;
          if(hasTransform){
                    if(requiresSVG&&!hasSVG)return!1;
                              return!0
                    }return!1
But then as a next step I tried to include PIE.js and modernizr.js to get the animation nearly work in IE 8. a) I tried it to iclude the scripts with a conditional IE tag in the head of the HTML-file. Dont worked. Then b) I tried it to load it via yepnope like this:
yepnope({
    nope : ['iefix/PIE.js'] 
          , complete: fireup
function fireup(){
                       if (window.PIE) {
        $('.ie').each(function() {
            PIE.attach(this);
But this also not worked.
Dear stuff guys: I know, this is not the right way in your plans for Edge Animate. But I REALLY would love to have a version running in IE 8 instead of a dull placeholder. Can anyone help me, please?

Answer 1

Hi, dworni-
You managed to catch us as our development team was out on holiday. 
Unfortunately, IE8 does not support some of the CSS that we rely on to make Edge Animate projects play in IE8, so trying to work around it so that you can play them may not give you the result you want.  The compromise we made to get Animate to its current feature set while still supporting IE8 was, as you pointed out in your original post, using the Chrome Frame.
That being said, you might want to try hacking in your JS files in your project's compositionReady instead of in the header of the project to see if that works at all.  As you're probably well aware, you're in unchartered and completely unsupported territory here... (thar be dragons )
Good luck!
-Elaine