SYWEB-13: Do not start the app if the browser does not support WEBStorage.

Internet Explorer case: Launch the app only for versions 9 and higher.

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/webclient/app.js b/webclient/app.js
index 9370f773b3..31118304c6 100644
--- a/webclient/app.js
+++ b/webclient/app.js
@@ -80,7 +80,24 @@ matrixWebClient.config(['$routeProvider', '$provide', '$httpProvider',
         $httpProvider.interceptors.push('AccessTokenInterceptor');
     }]);
 
-matrixWebClient.run(['$location', 'matrixService', function($location, matrixService) {
+matrixWebClient.run(['$location', '$rootScope', 'matrixService', function($location, $rootScope, matrixService) {
+
+    // Check browser support
+    // Support IE from 9.0. AngularJS needs some tricks to run on IE8 and below
+    var version = parseFloat($.browser.version);
+    if ($.browser.msie && version < 9.0) {
+        $rootScope.unsupportedBrowser = {
+            browser: navigator.userAgent,
+            reason: "Internet Explorer is supported from version 9"
+        };
+    }
+    // The app requires localStorage
+    if(typeof(Storage) === "undefined") {
+        $rootScope.unsupportedBrowser = {
+            browser: navigator.userAgent,
+            reason: "It does not support HTML local storage"
+        };
+    }
 
     // If user auth details are not in cache, go to the login page
     if (!matrixService.isUserLoggedIn() &&