Drag and drop in IE8 and IE9 using kendo upload

Question

In my application i am using kendo Upload.I need to have drag and drop,multiple file slection functionality.It is working fine with all other browsers except IE8 AND IE9.After some research it is found that hence IE8 AND IE9 doesnt not supports Html5 both the above functionality would not work on these. Any help. The jquery code is as below.

 <div style="width:90%">
                <div class="demo-section">
                    <input name="files" id="photos" type="file" />
                </div>
            </div> 
             <script>

                $(document).ready(function() {

                    $("#photos").kendoUpload({

                        async: {
                            saveUrl: "save",
                            removeUrl: "remove",
                            autoUpload: false
                        },
                        showFileList: true
                    });
                });
            </script>

Answer 1

This Kendo Upload functionality isn't available in IE8 and IE9 because those browsers do not support the HTML5 drag and drop API. You need IE10 at least for file upload via drag and drop.

More info about the supported browser versions can be found here: http://docs.kendoui.com/getting-started/web/upload/supported-browsers