title: How do I get ".is" to work in older versions of Internet Explorer
body: <p>I'm not getting ".is" to work. It's working great in IE9, firefox and other modern browsers but not IE8 or IE7</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt;
  &lt;html&gt;
  
  &lt;head&gt;
      &lt;script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  
  &lt;body&gt;
  
  &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
          $('body').click(function () {                   
                  if (!$('.myDiv').is(":hover")) {
                      alert("outside of blue div");
                  }
          });
  &lt;/script&gt;
  
  &lt;div class="myDiv" style="width:150px; height:150px; background:blue"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
  
  &lt;/body&gt;
  
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Or look here <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/uh8RB/" rel="nofollow">http://jsfiddle.net/uh8RB/</a></p>
  
  <p>How do I get it to work in IE8 and older?</p>