IE8 support

[PhilPJL]

I know - IE8. Unfortunately it's still used a lot.
Any chance of better support?

In IE8 the checkbox appears as a coloured rectangle with no text.

[PhilPJL]

IE8 doesn't support 'addEventListener' which is used by bootstrap-toggle.

Apparently one work around is:

if (!someElement.addEventListener) {
someElement.attachEvent("onclick", someFunction);
}
else {
someElement.addEventListener("click", someFunction, false);
}

[PhilPJL]

Ok, I see, you depend on jQuery 2.0 which isn't right since bootstrap 3 uses jQuery 1.x. Can you change to use jQuery 1.x? Bootstrap 4 will use jQuery 2.

[briansol]

jQuery is linked separately and is used in the examples only as an example. just include 1.11.x in your site if you need to support old browsers.

[PhilPJL]

My original comment still stands. I will retest. I'm currently using bootstrap-switch which does support IE8 but has other issues.

I hit the jQuery 2 issue when trying to use IE in version 8 compatibility mode on the samples page. Could you change the sample page to link to jQuery 1.11.x?

[briansol]

I'm just another user like you... trying to give back a bit to the community for the use of the script. Thus , I can't do anything like that :) only the owner can.

[PhilPJL]

Just found #35 which hopefully fixes the IE8 issue.
@minhur any chance these fixes will be merged soon-ish?

[briansol]

Neat. If the merge doesn't happen, you can always add it in to source yourself. I just did it to my minified file and it only took about a minuet to manually add in the closing tags.

[paulomcnally]

Not use IE :)

[philwig]

Still not working in IE8, which are fully supported by the correct versions of BS3 and JQ.
The issue now is that the button text (in either state) is not readable. Perhaps we can hack around that - I'll post a fix if I can find one. Oh, it seems it's not generating the LABEL tags at all - perhaps that is the same as above, I'll take a look...

... Ok, it's precisely this issue: thanks for flagging it up. That change looks like it'll fix it. Thanks.

We still have about 40% of users who're on this, and although it should die in February next year, I would not hold your breath

Either it supports IE8 (and I can use it), or it does not.
Blaming my the users is arrogant and less than helpful.