Title: Problems with IE8
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Problems with IE8

 *  Resolved [Walter Weigmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/walter-weigmann/)
 * (@walter-weigmann)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-ie8-2/)
 * Hi
    I have problems viewing the pdfs with IE8. Only a small rectangle is shown.
   Can you help me? Best Regards Walter
 * Error message as following:
    User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows
   NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; GTB7.5; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729;.
   NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET4.0E; MS-RTC LM 8; .NET4.0C) Timestamp: Thu, 28 May 2015
   14:56:24 UTC
 * Message: Object doesn’t support this property or method
    Line: 16 Char: 428 Code:
   0 URI: [http://slfwww.rcs.de.alcatel-lucent.com/bls/wp-content/plugins/pdf-embedder/js/all-pdfemb-basic.min.js?ver=4.2.2](http://slfwww.rcs.de.alcatel-lucent.com/bls/wp-content/plugins/pdf-embedder/js/all-pdfemb-basic.min.js?ver=4.2.2)
 * Message: Expected ‘:’
    Line: 4 Char: 162 Code: 0 URI: [http://slfwww.rcs.de.alcatel-lucent.com/bls/wp-content/plugins/pdf-embedder/js/pdfjs/compatibility.min.js?ver=4.2.2](http://slfwww.rcs.de.alcatel-lucent.com/bls/wp-content/plugins/pdf-embedder/js/pdfjs/compatibility.min.js?ver=4.2.2)
 * Message: Expected identifier
    Line: 29 Char: 496 Code: 0 URI: [http://slfwww.rcs.de.alcatel-lucent.com/bls/wp-content/plugins/pdf-embedder/js/pdfjs/pdf.min.js?ver=4.2.2](http://slfwww.rcs.de.alcatel-lucent.com/bls/wp-content/plugins/pdf-embedder/js/pdfjs/pdf.min.js?ver=4.2.2)
 * Message: ‘PDFJS’ is undefined
    Line: 11 Char: 1 Code: 0 URI: [http://slfwww.rcs.de.alcatel-lucent.com/bls/wp-content/plugins/pdf-embedder/js/all-pdfemb-basic.min.js?ver=4.2.2](http://slfwww.rcs.de.alcatel-lucent.com/bls/wp-content/plugins/pdf-embedder/js/all-pdfemb-basic.min.js?ver=4.2.2)
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/pdf-embedder/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/pdf-embedder/)

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 *  [danlester](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danlester/)
 * (@danlester)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-ie8-2/#post-6178824)
 * You are absolutely right that the plugin (in fact, WordPress really) requires
   IE9 or higher.
 * The problem lies with jQuery, which is a Javascript library bundled with WordPress.
   That requires IE9 or higher.
 * IE8 is presumably considered too old to support fully.

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