Click event bubbling within ".typeahead_link" breaks in IE11

[brendanfalkowski]

In IE11, after clicking a .typeahead_link in the response the UI shows "loading" indefinitely. The clicked link never loads.

In other browsers, the "loading" state is shown and the link is followed.

[brendanfalkowski]

This happens because click bubbling in IE11 is too slow, and the anchor element is removed from the DOM by a delegated event before the click actually registers. The browser never follows the link but does finish executing the delegated event.

Further details:
http://gravitydept.com/blog/unclickable-links-using-bubbling-only