laxar-media-widget.js
function parseUrl( url ) {
   // For MSIE <= 8: We cannot simply createElement('a')
   const div = document.createElement( 'div' );
   div.innerHTML = '<a></a>';
   div.firstChild.href = url;

   // For MSIE <= 8: force re-parsing URL
   // noinspection SillyAssignmentJS
   div.innerHTML = div.innerHTML;

   return div.firstChild;
}
function parseUrl( url ) {
   // For MSIE <= 8: We cannot simply createElement('a')
   const div = document.createElement( 'div' );
   div.innerHTML = '<a></a>';
   div.firstChild.href = url;

   // For MSIE <= 8: force re-parsing URL
   // noinspection SillyAssignmentJS
   div.innerHTML = div.innerHTML;

   return div.firstChild;
}
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