As an angular user, I too shudder at the title of this question, due to the fact that IE8 is evil incarnate and should be put down like a rabid dog.
that being said, I w
I tried L0lander's answer (which was my preferred one), but when using older angular version, other scripts complained, and it ended up not working anyway. So, I checked statistics at my site, and 0,2% only use IE8 or less, and I won't be giving myself headache over such a small crowd, so I simply added a message asking users of IE8 or less to upgrade.
Add following code just after body
tag to all of your pages: