Fix broken flow through runValidations in IE8

[andymantell]

Hi,

I am aware that you don't officially support IE8, but I have got validate.js up and running perfectly by including various polyfills for the bits of missing JS functionality.

The only blocker to it running however was a test in the runValidations function which checks if attributes is a dom element (isDomElement). It was doing this by checking if querySelectorAll and querySelector had a type of function. The issue is that IE8 actually returns a type of 'object' for these native functions (See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12933625/typeof-in-ie-8-for-native-functions). Therefore I have tweaked this test to merely check for the presence of these methods on the object and not to check on their type. I feel that it is reasonable to assume that if they are present, that they will be the native methods or something that functions equivalently (e.g. a polyfill) and that testing their type doesn't add any significant value.

What are your thoughts? As I say, this small tweak allows the library to run nicely under IE8 (provided you polyfill things like Array.prototype.forEach and a few others) without diminishing functionality in modern browsers.

[ansman]

This definitely sounds resonable, it that's all it takes besides the polyfills!

[ansman]

This is now released in 0.10.0

[andymantell]

Thanks @ansman, much appreciated