Dashing does not work with IE9

[arabold]

Not much to add to the description. There're a couple of issues with IE9 support - for example EventSource is not supported and requires a Polyfill, and the CSS seems to be broken and not working.

I'm working on a patch right now. This task is for tracking and notifying you about the efforts and progress.

[fabiocaseri]

Yes, I never tested with IE because AFAIK it doesn't support Server-Sent Events and I can use chrome on my wall screen.
Ok, thanks!

[adrianlee]

I used https://github.com/Yaffle/EventSource/ polyfill to get the SSE working. CSS seem to be fine but no data seems to be displayed on the widgets. I'm also looking into this issue. @arabold any progress?

[arabold]

That's basically as far as I came, too. But I'm trying to dig deeper into it today and can hopefully submit a pull-request soon.

[adrianlee]

I got to familiarize myself with the IE dev tools. Do you have any idea if it's the dashing js or or batman?

[arabold]

It doesn't load the html of the widgets. I'm digging through the code right now... somewhat hard for me to understand the logic as I'm new to most of the modules used.

[arabold]

Okay, found it. this.constructor.name doesn't exist in IE and returns an undefined. This makes everything else fail badly. I'll submit a pull-request as soon as I got everything cleaned up again.

[arabold]

Here you go: #15 -- probably you should test that yourself, @adrianlee.

[fjorgemota]

@fabiocaseri What about using socket.io for get this compatibility? (it seems great for something like a dashboard, but it may need to refactor some core parts of the project, too)