diff --git a/src/renderers/dom/shared/setInnerHTML.js b/src/renderers/dom/shared/setInnerHTML.js
index 70304e1951..25c7570071 100644
--- a/src/renderers/dom/shared/setInnerHTML.js
+++ b/src/renderers/dom/shared/setInnerHTML.js
@@ -11,20 +11,14 @@
 
 'use strict';
 
-var ExecutionEnvironment = require('fbjs/lib/ExecutionEnvironment');
 var DOMNamespaces = require('DOMNamespaces');
-
-var WHITESPACE_TEST = /^[ \r\n\t\f]/;
-var NONVISIBLE_TEST = /<(!--|link|noscript|meta|script|style)[ \r\n\t\f\/>]/;
-
 var createMicrosoftUnsafeLocalFunction = require('createMicrosoftUnsafeLocalFunction');
 
 // SVG temp container for IE lacking innerHTML
 var reusableSVGContainer;
 
 /**
- * Set the innerHTML property of a node, ensuring that whitespace is preserved
- * even in IE8.
+ * Set the innerHTML property of a node
  *
  * @param {DOMElement} node
  * @param {string} html
@@ -47,56 +41,4 @@ var setInnerHTML = createMicrosoftUnsafeLocalFunction(function(node, html) {
   }
 });
 
-if (ExecutionEnvironment.canUseDOM) {
-  // IE8: When updating a just created node with innerHTML only leading
-  // whitespace is removed. When updating an existing node with innerHTML
-  // whitespace in root TextNodes is also collapsed.
-  // @see quirksmode.org/bugreports/archives/2004/11/innerhtml_and_t.html
-
-  // Feature detection; only IE8 is known to behave improperly like this.
-  var testElement = document.createElement('div');
-  testElement.innerHTML = ' ';
-  if (testElement.innerHTML === '') {
-    setInnerHTML = function(node, html) {
-      // Magic theory: IE8 supposedly differentiates between added and updated
-      // nodes when processing innerHTML, innerHTML on updated nodes suffers
-      // from worse whitespace behavior. Re-adding a node like this triggers
-      // the initial and more favorable whitespace behavior.
-      // TODO: What to do on a detached node?
-      if (node.parentNode) {
-        node.parentNode.replaceChild(node, node);
-      }
-
-      // We also implement a workaround for non-visible tags disappearing into
-      // thin air on IE8, this only happens if there is no visible text
-      // in-front of the non-visible tags. Piggyback on the whitespace fix
-      // and simply check if any non-visible tags appear in the source.
-      if (
-        WHITESPACE_TEST.test(html) ||
-        (html[0] === '<' && NONVISIBLE_TEST.test(html))
-      ) {
-        // Recover leading whitespace by temporarily prepending any character.
-        // \uFEFF has the potential advantage of being zero-width/invisible.
-        // UglifyJS drops U+FEFF chars when parsing, so use String.fromCharCode
-        // in hopes that this is preserved even if "\uFEFF" is transformed to
-        // the actual Unicode character (by Babel, for example).
-        // https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS2/blob/v2.4.20/lib/parse.js#L216
-        node.innerHTML = String.fromCharCode(0xfeff) + html;
-
-        // deleteData leaves an empty `TextNode` which offsets the index of all
-        // children. Definitely want to avoid this.
-        var textNode = node.firstChild;
-        if (textNode.data.length === 1) {
-          node.removeChild(textNode);
-        } else {
-          textNode.deleteData(0, 1);
-        }
-      } else {
-        node.innerHTML = html;
-      }
-    };
-  }
-  testElement = null;
-}
-
 module.exports = setInnerHTML;