angular-issue-9128-patch.js

angular.module('issue-9128-patch', [])
    .config(['$provide', function($provide){
      
      $provide.decorator('$rootScope', ['$delegate', function($rootScope) {
        var _proto
          , _new
          , nextUid = function() {
              return ++$rootScope.$id;
            }
          , Scope = function() {
              this.$id = nextUid();
              this.$$phase = this.$parent = this.$$watchers = this.$$nextSibling = this.$$prevSibling = this.$$childHead = this.$$childTail = null;
              this.$root = this;
              this.$$destroyed = false;
              this.$$listeners = {};
              this.$$listenerCount = {};
              this.$$isolateBindings = null;
            };

        _proto = Object.create(Object.getPrototypeOf($rootScope));
        Scope.prototype = _proto;

        _new = function(isolate, parent) {
         var child;

          parent = parent || this;

          if (isolate) {
            child = new Scope();
            child.$root = this.$root;
          } else {
            // Only create a child scope class if somebody asks for one,
            // but cache it to allow the VM to optimize lookups.

            if(!this.$$ChildScope) {
              this.$$ChildScope = function ChildScope() {
                this['$$watchers'] = this['$$nextSibling'] = this['$$childHead'] = this['$$childTail'] = null;
                this['$$listeners'] = {};
                this['$$listenerCount'] = {};
                this['$id'] = nextUid();
                this['$$ChildScope'] = null;
              };
              this['$$ChildScope'].prototype = this;
            }
            child = new this.$$ChildScope();
          }
          child['$parent'] = parent;
          child['$$prevSibling'] = parent.$$childTail;
          if (parent.$$childHead) {
            parent.$$childTail.$$nextSibling = child;
            parent.$$childTail = child;
          } else {
            parent.$$childHead = parent.$$childTail = child;
          }

          // When the new scope is not isolated or we inherit from `this`, and
          // the parent scope is destroyed, the property `$$destroyed` is inherited
          // prototypically. In all other cases, this property needs to be set
          // when the parent scope is destroyed.
          // The listener needs to be added after the parent is set
          if (isolate || parent != this) {
            child.$on('$destroy', destroyChild);
          }

          return child;

          function destroyChild() {
            child.$$destroyed = true;
          }
        };

        $rootScope.$new = _new;
        return $rootScope;
      }]);

    }]);

bower.json

{
  "name": "angular-issue-9128-patch",
  "version": "0.0.3",
  "authors": [
    "Jeff Hunken <jhunken@gmail.com>"
  ],
  "description": "Decorator patch to fix #9128",
  "main": "angular-issue-9128-patch.js",
  "keywords": [
    "angular",
    "9128",
    "issue",
    "patch",
    "readonly"
  ],
  "license": "MIT",
  "homepage": "https://gist.github.com/beckyconning/9fe5450046cabfa5d104",
  "ignore": [
    "**/.*",
    "node_modules",
    "bower_components",
    "test",
    "tests"
  ]
}

Hi there,

Nice bit of code, I need to try it to see if it fixes the issue for me on angular 1.4.7.
However, why not doing some user agent sniffing just to be sure that this code is only used/added when we are on iOS8 or something like that ? Because the webkit bug related to all of this is supposed to be fixed in iOS9...