Event creation illegal constructor on stock Android Browser < 5.0

[mirkoschmidt]

On the built-in Android browser on Android versions < 5.0, the select box throws a js error:
**
Uncaught Type Error: Illegal constructor**

The culprit is in line 136:

event = new Event(eventName, {
          bubbles: true
        });

My propsed solution would be to wrap it inside a try catch, so the old-fashioned way could be triggered:

try {
          event = new Event(eventName, {
            bubbles: true
          });
        } catch(e){
          event = document.createEvent('Event');
          event.initEvent(eventName, true, false);
        }

[shaarman]

Good find! Based on that, here's a workaround you can add to your js so you do not have to change the sourcecode (and can keep on using the CDN).
Just add it in your $(document).ready.

  var selects = $("select");
  if (selects.length > 0 && selects[0].dispatchEvent) {
    if (typeof Event === "function") {
      try {
        event = new Event("change", { bubbles: true });
      } catch(e) {
        // reduce the original function to the working version
        $.fn.triggerNative = function (eventName) {
          var el = this[0];
          var event = document.createEvent("Event");
          event.initEvent(eventName, true, false);
          el.dispatchEvent(event);
        };
      }
    }
  }