AngularJS is undefined in IE8
I've been working with IE8 for six months now, feel your pain.
Without seeing your code it's hard exactly to say what's wrong
Here's a very very basic page I just tested with IE8, for you to compare against:
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head><meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8"> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Prompt Detail View</title> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <meta name="description" content=""> <meta name="author" content=""> <!-- disable browser cache --> <meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="max-age=0" /> <meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache" /> <meta http-equiv="expires" content="0" /> <meta http-equiv="expires" content="Tue, 01 Jan 1980 1:00:00 GMT" /> <meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache" /> <!--[if lte IE 8]> <script> document.createElement('ng-include'); document.createElement('ng-pluralize'); document.createElement('ng-view'); // Optionally these for CSS document.createElement('ng:include'); document.createElement('ng:pluralize'); document.createElement('ng:view'); </script> <![endif]--> <!-- Le HTML5 shim, for IE6-8 support of HTML5 elements --> <!--[if lt IE 9]> <script src="//html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script> <![endif]--> <script src="js/jquery-1.7.2.min.js"></script> <script src="js/angular-1.0.2.js" ng:autobind></script><script>var pageModule = angular.module('pageModule',[]).controller('pageCtrl',function($scope) { $scope.foo = 'my foo'; });</script></head><body> <div ng-app="pageModule" ng-controller="pageCtrl"> {{foo}} </div></body></html>
So this was totally my bad (or the guy that started this app months ago).
My application controller had var angular = angular || {} at the top, IE8 didn't agree with this declaration.
After removing that all is well.
I also had the same issue, my IE9 browser didn't recognize any AngularJs tag, after trying everything I decided to run the html file in a server and it worked.
To summerize, when I executed the file as follows it didn't work
file:///C:/AngularJS/firstTest.html
when I executed the file in the server as follows it did work