AngularJS 1.3 page won't load in IE8

Question

As an angular user, I too shudder at the title of this question, due to the fact that IE8 is evil incarnate and should be put down like a rabid dog.

that being said, I w

Answer 1

Based on answers from SamHuckaby and Zenorbi, i came up with acceptable solution which is a combination of their ideas and insights from this article IF Internet Explorer THEN Do Something Else (A How To...) by Phil Nash:

... - Conditional comment will be evaluated by IE, but the scripts within won't get loaded by IE and will get loaded by all other browsers

- Conditional comment will be evaluated by IE and if greater than IE 8, scripts will get loaded

- Conditional comment will be evaluated by IE and if less than IE 9, scripts will get loaded.

Both es5-shim and es6-shim should be put out of IE8 conditional comment block and checked by all browsers (and it's not expensive operation) as i recently found out that Safari has issues with String.prototype.startsWith()

Yeah we have some code duplication inside the first and the second conditional comment (and it can't be solved in a different way) but we have zero unwanted scripts loaded and we can close our task here.