I see no evidence that IE8 is running my JavaScript.
However when I go to debug it using the f12 tools, it runs my javascript when the Debugger handles the reload.
However if I do the reload from the user’s point of view (hitting reload), I once again see the javascript is not running.
It is clear that an debug assisted reload is different from a user reload. ( The debugger requests to do the reload )
Why the difference…what can I do?
There are no error messages. I don’t plan to support IE8 but I need this code to run in order to identify it and report to the user.
If you do not have an ieshiv then you may want to consider. http://code.google.com/p/html5shiv/ . I also agree with @Rocket ‘s assessment, make sure there are no console.log statements.