HTML5 Drag and Drop upload is not working on below the version IE 10

Question

I am using the HTML5 DND file uploading http://html5demos.com/dnd-upload but it is not working in the below the version IE 10

Webpage error details in IE browsers

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; BTRS124829; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET4.0C)
Timestamp: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 06:17:02 UTC


Message: Object doesn't support this property or method
Line: 57
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: http://html5demos.com/dnd-upload

Answer 1

Per the previous answers, its not just about FileReader .
Drag and Drop cannot be used perfectly in versions less than IE10. Even IE9 has some problems, let be IE8.

The browser should also support the DnD API

Check this link to another answer - Internet Explorer 9 Drag and Drop (DnD)

Check my application that allows drag drop of image files from your OS in to the browser:
HTML-5-DD - BackboneJS

It has 2 parts:
1. HTML5 Drag drop, that allows drag drop from OS to Browser
2. FileReader API that helps reading the image files as DataURI and appending the images

If your browser does not support Drag Drop, you won't be able to drag drop images in a way that can be understood by JavaScript .

Conclusion: FileReader is not the main feature that IE needs to suport for your scenario, its also and importantly the Drag Drop

Answer 2

This is because HTML5 uses File API & FileReader API which are not supported in IE whose versions are below 10.

Check the compatibility list here

Hope this helps.