IE6-8 support is broken due to JavaScript errors
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	• bzimport
	Jan 27 2014, 11:36 PM

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Author: shahyar+wmfbugzilla

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Need to implement a Function.bind polyfill, and need to stop using "new" as a method name, since it is a reserved keyword.

Version: master
Severity: blocker
Platform: PC

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Change 109788 had a related patch set uploaded by SG:
Introduce Function.bind polyfill, fix IE8 errors

shahyar+wmfbugzilla wrote:

(In reply to comment #0)

Need to implement a Function.bind polyfill, and need to stop using "new" as a
method name, since it is a reserved keyword.

Per discussion in #wikimedia-dev, we have chosen to use jQuery.proxy instead of a polyfill.

Change 109788 merged by jenkins-bot:
Replace all usages of Function.bind with jQuery.proxy Fixes IE8 errors