CORS GET example for MSIE 8 & 9

cors.js

var callback = function(data) { console.log(data); };
var url = "http://somewhere.in/the.web";

if (windows.XDomainRequest) {
  var xdr = new XDomainRequest();
	xdr.open("get", url);
	xdr.onload = function() {
		callback(this.responseText, 'success');
	};
	xdr.send();
} else {
	if (windows.XMLHttpRequest) {
		$.get(url, callback);
	} else {
		// doesn't work
	}
}