IE8 broken since 2.0

Hi,

I’ve noticed that I can’t preview sites in VirtualBox with ie8 since I updated to 2.0. I access the website with an ip address like this: http://192.168.1.42/my-site/

With version 1 of browser-sync the site load perfectly.

With version 2, the site load but all the ressources urls are still pointing to http://localhost/my-site/, causing many 404 and all styles, images and scripts are not loaded.

The ie8 developper tools doesn’t show any errors so I’m not sure how I can help debug this further.

edit: The problem only occurs on IE8, with IE9 and all other browsers everything works.

[corysimmons]

Is this back? IE8 on 2.15+ is throwing BS related errors.

Specifically:

var lookup=new Uint8Array(256)

'Uint8Array' is undefined

It’s really strange. It throws it sometimes and sometimes it doesn’t. Not sure what’s going on…

I don’t expect you to maintain IE8 forever, do you happen to know what the last IE8-friendly version was though?

[jhildenbiddle]

Thought I’d add a workaround for any poor souls out there still working with IE8.

snippetOptions: {
    // Prevent injection of browser-sync-client.js in IE < 9.
    // Allows browsersync to serve pages to older versions of IE without
    // errors, but requires manual refreshing pages to view changes.
    rule: {
        match: /<\/body>/i,
        fn: function (snippet, match, x) {
            return `<!--[if gt IE 8]><!-- -->${snippet}${match}<![endif]-->`;
        }
    }
}