I have the following:
<html>
    <head>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div>
            <form method="post">
                <div id="questions">    
                    <label for="question-6">Name of Course:</label>
                    <input type="text" name="name_of_course[response]" value="" id="question-6" class="required">
                    <label class="control-label" for="reporting-year">Reporting Year: </label>
                    <select name="reporting_year" id="reporting-year">
                        <option value="-1" selected="selected">Select option...</option>
                        <option value="4">2013-2014</option>
                        <option value="1">2012-2013</option>
                        <option value="2">2011-2012</option>
                        <option value="3">2010-2011</option>
                    </select>
                </div>
                <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Save Entry" class="btn">
            </form>
        </div>
        <script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery.js"></script>
        <script src="//ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.validate/1.10.0/jquery.validate.min.js"></script>
        <script>
            $(function(){
                jQuery.validator.addMethod("notEqual", function(value, element, param) {
                        return this.optional(element) || value !== param;
                        }, "Please select an option");
                $('form').validate({
                    rules:{
                        'reporting_year': {
                            notEqual: "-1"
                        }
                    }
                });
            });
        </script>
    </body>
</html>
Everyone's favorite browser, IE7 (IE10 w/compatibility really) is reporting the following error in the console:
SCRIPT3: Member not found.
jquery.js, line 2525 character 4
Of course IE8 and above work fine, but my client is using IE7.
Looks like it's a bug with IE10 in compatibility mode as it is reported to work in IE7. But there are some jquery workarounds posted here: http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/12577
What I found causing the problem is line 35 of jquery.validate.js
this.attr('novalidate', 'novalidate');
Comment out this line and problem is sovled. You could also wrap it with a ( current browser <= ie7) to explictly avoid this line only when ie7 is the broswer.
Update To comment out line only for ie7 you can use the following code:
var ie = (function () {
        var undef,
    v = 3,
    div = document.createElement('div'),
    all = div.getElementsByTagName('i');
        while (
    div.innerHTML = '<!--[if gt IE ' + (++v) + ']><i></i><![endif]-->',
    all[0]
);
        return v > 4 ? v : undef;
    } ());
and then:
    if (!ie || ie > 7) {
      this.attr('novalidate', 'novalidate');
    }
                        Hello problem from jQuery validation
https://github.com/jzaefferer/jquery-validation/issues/845
Change line 33 of the jquery Validation plugin from:
this.attr( "novalidate", "novalidate" );
to
this.prop( "novalidate", "novalidate" );
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