christianv/jquery-lifestream — pull request #152 by oliverkinne (2013-09-14 19:33:39+00:00)
Title: Fixed Twitter feed not working in IE8 - Issue #151

By the way, the solution not only solves the issue for IE8, but also for older iPads, which had the same problem of Twitter not working.

The changes are in core.js and twitter.js.

In core.js I added Jason Moon's jQUery.XDomainRequest.js to deal with the lack of XmlHTTP in IE8 so that Ajax transport can work properly.

In twitter.js I added code to add the century to the date returned by Twitter to allow IE8 to do a proper date conversion.

Both of the above allow the Twitter feed to work on IE8. You can test this here:

http://skillstrader.co.uk/christianv/jquery-lifestream/twitter_example.html

There also test results for IE8 and IE10 from webpagetest.org:

IE8: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/130914_A8_36e6412de0bd54356a5864a649227691/
IE10: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/130914_TY_ea6cf446f5ab2f2d36d56ded3f9e05d1/

Maybe someone else has resolved the IE8 in a better way, or maybe nobody is actually worried about supporting IE8, but I thought I'd share the changes anyway. My website needs them... :)