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I’m trying to support a user base that is tied to IE8 currently and noticed that I can’t use the ‘DELETE’ or ‘PUT’ verbs. Will using modernizr allow me to do this in IE8? If not what library if any will allow me to do this w/ out a hacky work-around like passing the verb in post data
According to answers to this (old) SO question, you shouldn’t have a problem with DELETE and PUT if you use them via the xmlHttpRequest object (ie Ajax calls).
In addition, the Wikipedia page for xmlHttpRequest also states that all the verbs are supported from IE7 upward.
They aren’t supported from a straightforward form submission, but there’s not really much need to use them in this context; POST should be sufficient. But for Ajax calls, you should be fine.
I recommend trying it in IE8 to confirm, but I don’t think you’ll have a problem.
Given that, I don’t think you’ll have a need for Modernizr to help you with this, unless you need IE6 support. But just to be sure, I had a look at the Modernizr docs, where it lists all the feature detections it does, and I couldn’t see anything about http verbs. And even if Modernizr did detect it, you’d still need a polyfill to actually fix it, and I don’t know of anything that would be able to do that. …. So it’s a good thing you probably won’t need it, then.