Missing browser compatibility declaration on GitHub project homepage

[dannya]

As you checkout the project README at https://github.com/paulirish/matchMedia.js clearly the most important thing you need to know about a polyfill is missing... browser compatibility!

The README should show (preferably near the top) the minimum browsers (IE, etc) that this will work with.

[markusfalk]

Took me a while too to find out why IE8 won't do what I wanted it to do. Maybe note that even if used through respondJS IE8 won't work

[smohadjer]

Same here! :(

The polyfill from David Knight however works in ie8. That's what I ended up using. You can get it from: https://github.com/weblinc/media-match

[benschwarz]

@smohadjer David's code ended up in matchMedia.js. You're recommending a library that hasn't been updated in 2 years.

matchMedia somewhat confuses the issue by calling itself a polyfill —

While it is a polyfill for window.matchMedia, that is only for browsers that actually support media queries. (Thusly, no IE8 support).

Any library that "supports media queries" in IE8 is doing something hacky, and should probably best be avoided because there are more than likely going to be some bad performance results.

[smohadjer]

I don't care if it's ten years old, as long as it does the job! ;)

[tejaswagh1805]

I can't understand...