Broken changes in ie8

[tormozz48]

Hello.

As you know socket.io is a dependency of karma test unit framework.

And I come here from some issue with unit-test on my project.
I found a commit
in socket.io package that breaks work in ie8 browser

Here you can see row of code that has broken changes:

clientSource = read(require.resolve('socket.io-client/dist/socket.io.min.js'), 'utf-8')

You want to:

• report a bug
• request a feature

Current behaviour

IE8 browser does not launch from karma test unit framework

Expected behaviour

IE8 browser should work properly as other browsers

Setup

• OS: windows
• browser: ie8
• socket.io version: 1.7.0 and higher (1.6.0 and lower is working fine)

Other information (e.g. stacktraces, related issues, suggestions how to fix)

My version is that minified code from socket.io-client dependency does not properly supported by ie8 browser and it fails.

[tormozz48]

I will close it due to socketio/socket.io-client#1063

[darrachequesne]

@tormozz48 it should be fixed in 2.x version (related to uglifyJS and screw_ie8 option)

Related: socketio/socket.io-client#1042