Computers at Norfolk Public Libraries can not use Bus Finder

[raggiesoft]

Fix by using a version of jQuery that does not break IE 8. The majority of HRT's riders are Minority/Low Income and would possibly use Bus Finder at the Library. As the City of Norfolk still uses IE 8 / Win XP, the site is no good for them.

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[bschoenfeld]

Ugh. Point taken. I'll look into this. Once we get functionality, it might be tough to get @wbprice's design to look right. Maybe we build an alternate, bare-bones view for IE 8.

[raggiesoft]

@wbprice is giving me a crash course of Github, Xampp, and whatnot. I'll see what I can hack

[raggiesoft]

I tested the site with the old jQuery and it seems to be working. I'm going to do some testing in IE 8

[raggiesoft]

[UPDATE] Testing in IE 8 in XP on VirtualBox brings up the License dialog, then it shows the site (without the sidebar) as if the user declines to give their location and defaults to Stop #190, in front of the Norfolk bus garage

[wbprice]

What may be going on here is that the html5 geolocation API doesn't exist for IE8. Look for a shim that we can use on old browsers.