Make JS IE friendly

replace startsWith and optional function arguments with IE friendly code

Author: twhiteaker

pagination.js

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ function makePageLink(currentUrl, currentStart, start, linkText) {
     var tagStart = '<a href="';
     if (currentStart == start) {
         uri = "#";
-        if (!linkText.toString().startsWith("&")) {  // Don't modify arrows
+        if (!linkText.toString().substring(0, 1) === "&") {  // Don't modify arrows
             tagStart = '<a class="active" href="';
         }
     }

solr.js

@@ -123,14 +123,15 @@ function showUrl(url) {
 
 
 // Passes search URL and callbacks to CORS function
-function searchSolr(query, coreArea="", start=0) {
+function searchSolr(query, coreArea, start) {
     var base = SOLR_CONFIG["server"];
     var fields = ["title",
                   "origin",
                   "datePublished",
                   "resourceMap"].toString();
     var params = "fl=" + fields + "&defType=edismax&wt=json";
     var limit = "&rows=" + SOLR_CONFIG["limit"];
+    if (start === undefined) start = "0";
     start = "&start=" + start;
     query = "&q=" + SOLR_CONFIG["filter"] + " " + query;
     if (coreArea && coreArea !== "any") {