Many thanks for your replies. Yes I can confirm we have web developers that are re-writing our entire website, and they will be using jquery within it.
I know the code itself does not do anything, but the developers seem convinced it should at least display the same info as it does when run with firefox. The team I work for is responsible for looking at GPO's, I guess I really just need to know if there are any particular IE settings that have to be enabled. If the answer is no, that is fine, because then I can go back to them with that :-D thanks for your time