I have managed to find a solution for this problem, the problem being that the alpine plugin is trying to use a deprecated feature of jquery that was removed before 2.0.
There are two solutions, either:
A. You can use an older version of jquery e.e v1.10.2 with browser detection still available.
B. You can use the browser support plugin found here. You need to include this in your theme’s header or footer with a script tag.
Edit: Apparently things still break with the browser support plugin so the first solution has to be used.