Question

See: http://jsbin.com/ebudec/edit#javascript,html

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It seems strange but I think jsBin doesn’t recognize the jQuery document ready (other syntax – which I use a lot) in IE :

$(function () {});

jQuery.ready says :

The .ready() method is typically used with an anonymous function:

$(document).ready(function() {
  // Handler for .ready() called.
});

Which is equivalent to calling:

$(function() {
 // Handler for .ready() called.
});

Answer 1

I added the following test code to your jsbin:

$(document).ready(function () {alert('');}); // Works!
$(function () {alert('');}); // Fails

The second line most definitely throws an error in IE. The interesting thing is that the IE debugger showed the following markup:

<script>
window.onload = (function () {alert('');});
$(function () {alert('');});
</script>

The debugger also did not have the $ or jQuery objects defined. It looks like jsbin was somehow trying to parse out the jQuery code???