In IE8 most of the times Ajax calls are not working, its getting failed. The work around for this issue is you just add the moonscript reference in that page, it works fine.

First issue if client disable javascript.Browser compatibilityNot secure

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Browser compatibility of jQuery plugin is an issue and needs lot of time to fix it.