flatiron/plates — pull request #57 by rpbertp13 (2012-04-06 17:47:30+00:00)
Title: Improve IE 7 compatibility

This simple change seems to help quite a bit in improving compatibility with IE 7. The semantics of the bracket notation and charAt should be identical in browsers that support brackets. The performance of both is comparable, except for Firefox 9+ where charAt is substantially faster.

http://jsperf.com/string-charat-vs-bracket-notation