add ie8 support

[ascrazy]

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[nfm]

Hi @dbanck, the Microsoft KB article (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927917) seems to say it's an IE7 issue - are you able to confirm whether you've had the same error for IE8?

Unfortunately we can't move the appendChild into onload - appending the script is what makes it start loading in the first place. I'm looking into the jQuery pattern of handling this, which I believe is to avoid the bug you've reported - they use document.head.insertBefore(script, document.head.firstChild) instead.

I will check back soon with some more information about this pull request once I've done my homework!

[JohnAmican]

Is this still active?

[wakiki]

I confirm it's still not working in IE7, and I'm getting this error:

HTML Parsing Error: Unable to modify the parent container element before the child element is closed (KB927917)

IE8 works fine.

Is there any progress on fixing this for IE6/7 (I know we shouldn't support these old browsers, but we have no choice... sigh)

[davidlesches]

I was having the parse error with IE8, I corrected it using this -
http://www.jspatterns.com/the-ridiculous-case-of-adding-a-script-element/

i.e. I replaced doc.documentElement.appendChild(script); with

var first = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
first.parentNode.insertBefore(script, first);