jashkenas/backbone — pull request #3172 by gmajoulet (2014-06-02 14:26:12+00:00)
Title: Removing the IE8 PATCH requests fix

Patch requests were not working on IE8, even with the Backbone fix (tested on XP/IE8 with modern.ie VMs).

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Remove this line when jQuery supports `PATCH` on IE8.
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jQuery 1.11.* and the corresponding 2.x version now support PATCH requests (see: http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/13240)

It now works as expected with jQuery