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Make HTML5 Elements Work in Old IE

(function(){if(!/*@cc_on!@*/0)return;var e = "abbr,article,aside,audio,bb,canvas,datagrid,datalist,details,dialog,eventsource,figure,footer,header,hgroup,mark,menu,meter,nav,output,progress,section,time,video".split(','),i=e.length;while(i--){document.createElement(e[i])}})()

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<!--[if IE]>
<script src="http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
<![endif]-->

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  1. Markus

    nice :)

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  2. molbal

    Cool. :) Thanks

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  3. Titan

    Is this script works for ie6?

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  4. Rico

    This works great. thanks

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  5. Varsh

    Hi,

    I am getting error while I am trying – createLinearGradient.. Can you please help on this.

    Varsh..

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  6. David Silva

    How is it that IE hasn’t disappeared yet? When will Microsoft realize that its browser cannot catch up. Put it out of its misery – it’s aging horribly and dying . . .

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    • O'Ryan

      You mean like this?
      http://www.ie6countdown.com/

      Microsoft knows full and well that IE6 is way outdated. Users / Businesses either don’t know enough, don’t care enough, or invested too much time and money to upgrade regularly or at all.

  7. O'Ryan

    this should probably be updated to look something like this:

    &lt!--[if lt IE 9]&gt
 &ltscript src="http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"&gt&lt/script&gt
  &lt![endif]--&gt
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