Support ie8

[nlhkabu]

At the moment ie8 is totally broken. I don't want to spend a heap of time making it perfect, but I would like it to be functional.

As far as I can tell, these are the primary issues:

• HTML5 tags not rendering (look at fix with modernizr)
• SVGs do not display (provide png fallback)
• JS not working (I don't know what the solution is for this - will need to debug)

[agronholm]

I mean no disrespect, but IE < 11 has been EOL'd beginning Jan 12th 2016. So why go through this effort when its vendor will not even supply security patches anymore?

[nlhkabu]

Because we still have almost 5000 users per month on ie8 (primarily in China). I expect this will decline, but it still a large enough number to justify spending a couple of hours debugging.

[di]

JS is not working because jQuery 2.x only supports IE 9+: http://jquery.com/browser-support/

[dstufft]

Given that jQuery doesn't work on IE8 nor does l20n.js does it make sense to try and support this still? We're using jQuery to do a "client side include" of content like the login/logout/current-user indicator on each page so that the main content can be cached once for all users, but that additional content can be added post-cache. So unless we come up with a IE8 compliant solution to that, they're not going to be able to access any logged in areas of Warehouse.

[nlhkabu]

Ok, given this complexity, let's drop this for now and respond should we have any significant negative community feedback.