IE 8 compatibility issue

[bluecode2]

I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, but I'm really stuck now.
I already develop all my needs in chrome, but my users (like another users out there) still using IE8 for their primary browser. The problem is, when I try to open it using IE8, it pops up an error like this.

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.3; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
Timestamp: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 10:20:06 UTC

Message: Expected identifier, string or number
Line: 1
Char: 2697
Code: 0
URI: https://10.20.200.7/script/jquery.tablesorter.min.js

I thought there's something wrong with my code, but when I try to make a new blank page which is only including jquery.tablesorter.min.js without using it, the same error occurs. Do you have any idea about this error?

[Mottie]

Hi @bluecode2!

Please share the code you are using and use the un-minified version of the plugin to get a more reasonable line number error to work with. Also, what version of jQuery is being used?

[bluecode2]

wowww,, I tried to use the un-minified version and it works!! Seems like I'll use the un-minified one for the time being. Thank you for your advice.
Anyway, because of this strange solution, I tried to compare both minified and un-minified version. I found the difference in this part of code (line 204)

// digit sort, text location
string : {
max : 1,
min : -1,
emptymin : 1,
emptymax : -1,
zero : 0,
none : 0,
'null' : 0,
top : true,
bottom : false
},

in minified version, you write null (without quotes) instead of 'null'. I don't really know how IE 8 interpret it, but that's the only thing that I found for now. Once again, thank you very much.

[Herst]

@Mottie UglifyJS is used without --ie8?

[Mottie]

Yeah, I guess I didn't bother when they switched the option from being disabled with screwIE8 to disabled with ie8. I guess I should either fix it or update the supported browsers list...