angular-file-upload breaks IE9

Question

I`m trying to upload a file via angular-file-upload and on IE9 it falls back to legacy upload via flash.

The steps to reproduce this are:

1. Press the file input to upload file
2. Select file and press open
3. IE9 completely breaks with an error of "Internet Explorer has stopped working" and it restarts.

The way I am uploading the file is via a $watch on the file input so basically the upload should start automatically after selecting the file.

Has anyone encountered this? Thanks.

Answer 1

It's breaking in IE9 because IE9 does not support canvas. IF you view this URL in IE9 angular-file-upload you will see they have the es5-shim library:

<!-- Fix for old browsers -->
    <script src="http://nervgh.github.io/js/es5-shim.min.js"></script>
    <script src="http://nervgh.github.io/js/es5-sham.min.js"></script>
    <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.3.min.js"></script>
    <script src="../console-sham.js"></script>