CTools dashboards not rendering in IE8

Hi,

I saw a post from Pedro back in December saying the dashboards should broadly work in IE8.

However they don't even render at the moment.

Here is the error:

SCRIPT5007: The value of the property '$' is null or undefined, not a Function object
Render, line 1415 character 3

<script type="text/javascript">
$( function(){
//$(".round").corner();

Pointing to the $(function() { bit there..

This is easily reproducible in IE10 if you go to dev tools then IE8 compatability mode.

Curiously the EE dashboards seem to render fine. Could it be some new change?

Rgds,
Dan