Comment by codeape 12 years ago What would it take to add IE8 support? 5 comments codeape Reply EvanYou 12 years ago It makes heavy use of Object.defineProperty to achieve the plain object syntax instead of dirty checking. Unfortunately in IE8 Object.defineProperty only works on DOM objects and there's no way to shim it for plain JavaScript objects. ams6110 12 years ago Why would a new JS framework bother to support a browser that's 3 major revs out of date?Edit: Possibly you are being sarcastic.... codeape 12 years ago No not sarcastic. Just wondering. ianstormtaylor 12 years ago You'd need to move to an event-based system like Backbone that emits change events on models.
EvanYou 12 years ago It makes heavy use of Object.defineProperty to achieve the plain object syntax instead of dirty checking. Unfortunately in IE8 Object.defineProperty only works on DOM objects and there's no way to shim it for plain JavaScript objects.
ams6110 12 years ago Why would a new JS framework bother to support a browser that's 3 major revs out of date?Edit: Possibly you are being sarcastic.... codeape 12 years ago No not sarcastic. Just wondering. ianstormtaylor 12 years ago You'd need to move to an event-based system like Backbone that emits change events on models.
codeape 12 years ago No not sarcastic. Just wondering. ianstormtaylor 12 years ago You'd need to move to an event-based system like Backbone that emits change events on models.
ianstormtaylor 12 years ago You'd need to move to an event-based system like Backbone that emits change events on models.
It makes heavy use of Object.defineProperty to achieve the plain object syntax instead of dirty checking. Unfortunately in IE8 Object.defineProperty only works on DOM objects and there's no way to shim it for plain JavaScript objects.
Why would a new JS framework bother to support a browser that's 3 major revs out of date?
Edit: Possibly you are being sarcastic....
No not sarcastic. Just wondering.
You'd need to move to an event-based system like Backbone that emits change events on models.