This bit me the other day, so I thought I’d share the pain.
IE9 doesn’t support pushState as you probably know which meant everything was routing to root (as it were).
The following snippet checks and resorts to hash based routing if it can’t cut the mustard:
app.on('initialize:after', function() {
if(Backbone.history && !Backbone.History.started) {
if(!(window.history && history.pushState)) {
Backbone.history.start({ pushState: false, silent: true });
var fragment = window.location.pathname.substr(
Backbone.history.options.root.length);
Backbone.history.navigate(fragment, { trigger: true });
}
else {
Backbone.history.start({ pushState: true });
}
}
});
Add it wherever you would initialize Backbone history – often the entry point of the app. Mine for instance has an app.js that is initialised by main.js
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