From 2999875817668d7598d54c724907d475df60dfff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Fryer <brianfryer@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 10:38:37 -0600
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Fix for IE8

> `appendChild()` in IE is not applied to `<script>`-elements (http://stackoverflow.com/a/7091055)

So, we're going to try using the `.text` property instead.
---
 wp-defer-loading.php | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/wp-defer-loading.php b/wp-defer-loading.php
index a236aa8..0e1201a 100644
--- a/wp-defer-loading.php
+++ b/wp-defer-loading.php
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ function print_extra_script( $handle, $echo = true ) {
 
 
 		echo "var element = document.createElement(\"script\");\n";
-        echo "element.appendChild( document.createTextNode( \"". addslashes(str_replace(array('\r\n','\n','\r'),"",$output)) ."\" ) );";
+        echo "element.text( \"". addslashes(str_replace(array('\r\n','\n','\r'),"",$output)) ."\" );";
 		echo "\ndocument.body.appendChild(element);\n";
 
 		return true;

From f61891f2afc28764576ce1586428e6f54d8f5a89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Fryer <brianfryer@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 10:58:03 -0600
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] .text is a property, not a method... oops.

---
 wp-defer-loading.php | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/wp-defer-loading.php b/wp-defer-loading.php
index 0e1201a..450dcf1 100644
--- a/wp-defer-loading.php
+++ b/wp-defer-loading.php
@@ -119,7 +119,10 @@ function print_extra_script( $handle, $echo = true ) {
 
 
 		echo "var element = document.createElement(\"script\");\n";
-        echo "element.text( \"". addslashes(str_replace(array('\r\n','\n','\r'),"",$output)) ."\" );";
+	// <script> elements in IE8 do not support the .appendChild() method
+	// so, we're assigning the string to the .text property
+	//echo "element.appendChild( document.createTextNode( \"". addslashes(str_replace(array('\r\n','\n','\r'),"",$output)) ."\" ) );";
+	echo "element.text = '". addslashes(str_replace(array('\r\n','\n','\r'),"",$output)) ."' ;";
 		echo "\ndocument.body.appendChild(element);\n";
 
 		return true;