From f6d436da685cb3b1d891795e396f5d10f8c2625d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Leo Horie <leohorie@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 16:21:55 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] prevent nonsensical IE error

---
 mithril.js | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mithril.js b/mithril.js
index 869c114d..e3a9d1c7 100644
--- a/mithril.js
+++ b/mithril.js
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ var m = (function app(window, undefined) {
 								clear(cached.nodes, cached);
 								nodes = [$document.createTextNode(data)]
 							}
-							parentElement.insertBefore(nodes[0], parentElement.childNodes[index] || null);
+							try {parentElement.insertBefore(nodes[0], parentElement.childNodes[index] || null);} catch (e) {} //IE erroneously throws error when appending an empty text node after a null
 							nodes[0].nodeValue = data
 						}
 					}