One of our larger customers is an ISP in India, and an alarming
percentage of their userbase is on IE8 still, and I don't foresee that changing in the next several months.
So, we'll most likely create an official plugin hoping people interested will provide feedback/support/fixes for it.
That sounds like a perfect solution, and you seemingly have already one party with a large customer in Indian who can provide help in maintaining such a plugin :)
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