AngularJS 1.3 IE8 builds

AngularJS 1.3 does not work with IE8. With these custom builds you get good IE8 support. I can't guarantee that everything will work but anything I've tried works fine.

What you need

es5-shim
jQuery 1.*
AngularJS 1.3.* build from this repo (some poly-fills are baked in and minor fixes to enable IE8 support)

Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
	<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
	<meta charset="utf-8" />
	<title>Angular 1.3 IE8</title>
	<!--[if IE 8]>
		<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/es5-shim/4.0.5/es5-shim.min.js"></script>
		<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.1.min.js"></script>
		<style>
			.ng-hide {
				display: none !important;
			}
		</style>
	<![endif]-->
	<script src="angular.js"></script>
</head>
<body ng-app="someApp">

</body>
</html>

npm & bower

npm

npm install angularjs-ie8-build

bower

bower install angularjs-ie8-build

// bower install with local name "angular"
bower install angular=angularjs-ie8-build

Careful now

When using $q promise methods catch or finally in IE8 use bracket notation instead of dot notation. Same goes for $http delete method. IE8 does not like dot notation with these reserved words.

// no
promise.catch(function(){});

// yes
promise['catch'](function(){});

Source

The source is maintained here: https://github.com/fergaldoyle/angular.js/tree/ie8-compat

xudingjiemike/angular.js-ie8-builds