Pitfalls Preventing Cross Browser Compatibility

Testing in IE8

So you’ve created a swanky new webapp. You have used all the latest frameworks and a bunch of frameworks and it’s looking swell on your chrome browser. And now you decide, that its time you opened up that windows machine and tested it on IE. Windows 8 machine booted up with IE10 and everything is still workalicious. IE9 ditto. IE8 is when shit hits the fan.

What I did to get my application to work on IE8

• !IE headers
• Trailing commas
• Click event
• HTTP Patch
• evt.target.classList
• Always refer to object child as object[‘child’] thank object.child
• add JSON2.js
• IE document mode
• getjSON caching

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