i hear you. how about this: keep conditional comments and make sure skrollr include happens after the ie plugin. let the plugin provide patches through the window object and then merge them gracefully into the skrollr, smth like this:

```
// inside skrollr.js
if(typeof window.skrollr !== 'undefined'){
   // clone the patch and wire it to the skrollr instance
   // cleanup global scope if needed (if using require)
}

```