Does Internet Explorer 8 support HTML 5

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Is there any HTML5 support in IE8   Is it on the IE8 roadmap

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You can read more about IE8 and HTML 5 support here   http   blogs msdn com giorgio archive 2009 11 29 ie8-and-html-5 aspx

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According to http   msdn microsoft com en-us library cc288472 VS 85  aspx html  IE8 will have  strong  HTML 5 support  I haven t seen anything discussing exactly what  strong support  entails  but I can say that yes  some HTML5 stuff is going to make it into IE8

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You can use this to make IE8 understand support basic HTML5 tags    lt  -- if lt IE 9   gt        lt script type  text javascript  gt          var html5Elem     header    nav    menu    section    article    aside    footer            for  var i   0  i  lt  html5Elem length  i                 document createElement html5Elem i                   lt  script gt   lt   endif -- gt

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Modernizr is also a great option for giving IE HTML5 rendering capabilities

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You can get HTML5 tags working in IE8 by including this JavaScript in the head    lt script type  text javascript  gt   document createElement  header     document createElement  nav     document createElement  menu     document createElement  section     document createElement  article     document createElement  aside     document createElement  footer     lt  script gt

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Check out the caniuse guide for all HTML 5 features across all browsers and versions  including future versions

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You can get HTML5 tags working in IE8 by including this JavaScript in the head    lt script type  text javascript  gt   document createElement  header     document createElement  nav     document createElement  menu     document createElement  section     document createElement  article     document createElement  aside     document createElement  footer     lt  script gt

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Also are supported HTML5 hashchange event and ononline  offline event

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Check out the caniuse guide for all HTML 5 features across all browsers and versions  including future versions

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Also are supported HTML5 hashchange event and ononline  offline event

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IE8 beta 2 supports two APIs from HTML5  cross-document messaging and non-SQL storage   IE8 beta 2 doesn   t implement the HTML5 parsing algorithm or the new elements  no  lt canvas gt  or  lt video gt  support    There are also bug fixes that align IE8 better with HTML5

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HTML5 is still in draft spec  and will be for a loooong time   Why bother

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Some of the other answers here are about adding HTML5 capabilities to IE8 and other browsers  These are called Polyfills and my favourite place for finding those is here

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HTML5 is still in draft spec  and will be for a loooong time   Why bother

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You can use this IE HTML5 shim script to gain a basic level of support for the new semantic elements in HTML5 such as  lt article gt

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Does it support    lt  DOCTYPE html gt    Yes it does   Perhaps a better question is what modern web features IE8 supports  Some of the best places to answer that are caniuse com  html5test com  and browserscope org   HTML5 means a lot of different things to different people  These days  it means HTML  CSS  and JavaScript functionality  The term is becoming a bit  Web 2 0 -like

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Some of the other answers here are about adding HTML5 capabilities to IE8 and other browsers  These are called Polyfills and my favourite place for finding those is here

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IE8 beta 2 supports two APIs from HTML5  cross-document messaging and non-SQL storage   IE8 beta 2 doesn   t implement the HTML5 parsing algorithm or the new elements  no  lt canvas gt  or  lt video gt  support    There are also bug fixes that align IE8 better with HTML5

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According to http   msdn microsoft com en-us library cc288472 VS 85  aspx html  IE8 will have  strong  HTML 5 support  I haven t seen anything discussing exactly what  strong support  entails  but I can say that yes  some HTML5 stuff is going to make it into IE8

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Modernizr is also a great option for giving IE HTML5 rendering capabilities

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Does it support    lt  DOCTYPE html gt    Yes it does   Perhaps a better question is what modern web features IE8 supports  Some of the best places to answer that are caniuse com  html5test com  and browserscope org   HTML5 means a lot of different things to different people  These days  it means HTML  CSS  and JavaScript functionality  The term is becoming a bit  Web 2 0 -like

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IE8 s HTML5 support is limited  but Internet Explorer 9 has just been released and has strong support for the new emerging HTML5 technologies

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Also are supported HTML5 hashchange event and ononline  offline event

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IE8 s HTML5 support is limited  but Internet Explorer 9 has just been released and has strong support for the new emerging HTML5 technologies

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IE8 beta 2 supports two APIs from HTML5  cross-document messaging and non-SQL storage   IE8 beta 2 doesn   t implement the HTML5 parsing algorithm or the new elements  no  lt canvas gt  or  lt video gt  support    There are also bug fixes that align IE8 better with HTML5

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You can use this IE HTML5 shim script to gain a basic level of support for the new semantic elements in HTML5 such as  lt article gt

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According to http   msdn microsoft com en-us library cc288472 VS 85  aspx html  IE8 will have  strong  HTML 5 support  I haven t seen anything discussing exactly what  strong support  entails  but I can say that yes  some HTML5 stuff is going to make it into IE8

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You can read more about IE8 and HTML 5 support here   http   blogs msdn com giorgio archive 2009 11 29 ie8-and-html-5 aspx

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Also are supported HTML5 hashchange event and ononline  offline event

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IE8 beta 2 supports two APIs from HTML5  cross-document messaging and non-SQL storage   IE8 beta 2 doesn   t implement the HTML5 parsing algorithm or the new elements  no  lt canvas gt  or  lt video gt  support    There are also bug fixes that align IE8 better with HTML5

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According to http   msdn microsoft com en-us library cc288472 VS 85  aspx html  IE8 will have  strong  HTML 5 support  I haven t seen anything discussing exactly what  strong support  entails  but I can say that yes  some HTML5 stuff is going to make it into IE8

User · Answer

You can use this to make IE8 understand support basic HTML5 tags    lt  -- if lt IE 9   gt        lt script type  text javascript  gt          var html5Elem     header    nav    menu    section    article    aside    footer            for  var i   0  i  lt  html5Elem length  i                 document createElement html5Elem i                   lt  script gt   lt   endif -- gt

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