Turbolinks 3 and render a partial - ruby-on-rails

Question

I'm excited about turbolinks3(it allows you to render only a partial and not reload all the body)
You can read more about it from here: https://github.com/rails/turbolinks/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
It's amazing but I've a problem:
In browsers that doesn't support pushState(example ie8/9), I don't know how manage the behavior.
It give me this error on IE8:
Could not set the innerHTML property. Invalid target element for this operation.
My Controller code is:
def create
#post = Post.find(params[:post_id])
if #post.comments.create(comment_params)
render '_comment', change: [:comments, :super_test], layout: false, :locals => { comment: #post.comments.last }
else
render json:'error'
end
end
A 'solution' could be that I do:
redirect_to #post, change: [:comments, :super_test]
But then the problem is that it reply with a lot of data that I don't need!(and the response time is bigger) So I reallt want find another solution.
How I can resolve this problem ?
I've thought about 2 solution:
1) Use history.js / modernizr for polyfill the pushState on old browsers
But I've tried but I always get the same error(like if I don't have
modernizr)
Webpage error details
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0)
Timestamp: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 17:28:52 UTC
Message: Could not set the innerHTML property. Invalid target element for this operation.
Line: 26
Char: 30464
Code: 0
URI: https://stark-forest-5974.herokuapp.com/assets/application-83a3aa4fd4a1ee124da87760bfdca86febd4fc1cb8a13167c892a15ce3caa53d.js
2) Find a way for check if the request is done by turbolinks/pjax or not...and use conditional render or redirect_to
But I've not idea on how I can do it, because turbolinks doesn't send
a specific header like does jquery-pjax
Any suggestions ? I really appreciate it!
PS: Please don't suggest me backbone/angular/ember/react, I already know them(backbone), but I want try turbolinks.

Answer 1

Your first instinct is right, with IE8 you'll need modernizr. the problem is neither you code or turbolinks here, it's IE8.
PS: Turbolinks doesn't actually replace JS frameworks, you can perfectly use it with one of them if you want. I did use it with React and Angular. Turbolinks just avoids re-loading the same thing several times (wich feels already magic).