Yet Another Document and a knockout.js Bug

I have one more document to write for my current client. Because of that, I really just don’t have time to write, today, in this blog. Not only that, but I don’t really have anything interesting to write. Except this thing I found with knockout.js.

It seems that knockout.js on IE8 strips any trailing white space between a data-bound tag and further text. For example, given the markup:

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<div>
  My humorous substitution <span data-bind="text: verb27"></span> away with
  a <span data-bind="text: noun11"></span>.
</div>

renders as the following in IE8.

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<div>
  My humorous substitution <span data-bind="text: verb27">ran</span>away with
  a <span data-bind="text: noun11">spoon</span>.
</div>

And you can see the trailing whitespace of the first span, the space between the end tag and the word “away,” disappears. I haven’t had time to hunt down the bug or even report it.

Maybe this weekend.