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BuddyJoe
BuddyJoe

Reputation: 71171

Does Internet Explorer 8 support HTML 5?

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

Upvotes: 137

Views: 328178

Answers (13)

Alfonse
Alfonse

Reputation: 794

You can use this to make IE8 understand/support basic HTML5 tags.

<!--[if lt IE 9 ]> 
    <script type="text/javascript">
        var html5Elem = ['header', 'nav', 'menu', 'section', 'article', 'aside', 'footer'];
        for (var i = 0; i < html5Elem.length; i++){
            document.createElement(html5Elem[i]);
        }
    </script>
<![endif]-->

Upvotes: 4

goker
goker

Reputation: 2720

You can get HTML5 tags working in IE8 by including this JavaScript in the head.

<script type="text/javascript">
 document.createElement('header');
 document.createElement('nav');
 document.createElement('menu');
 document.createElement('section');
 document.createElement('article');
 document.createElement('aside');
 document.createElement('footer');
</script>

Upvotes: 72

Justin
Justin

Reputation: 8943

Does it support 

<!DOCTYPE html>

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.

Upvotes: 17

Anonymous
Anonymous

Reputation: 81

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

Upvotes: 8

dpan
dpan

Reputation: 5413

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

Upvotes: 4

Justin
Justin

Reputation: 8943

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.

Upvotes: 2

Aaron
Aaron

Reputation: 115

HTML5 is still in draft spec (and will be for a loooong time). Why bother?

Upvotes: 5

Giorgio Sardo
Giorgio Sardo

Reputation: 29

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

Upvotes: 2

Simon
Simon

Reputation: 3727

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

Upvotes: 25

John
John

Reputation: 30245

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

Upvotes: 43

Martin Hassman
Martin Hassman

Reputation: 125

Also are supported HTML5 hashchange event and ononline, offline event

Upvotes: 12

hsivonen
hsivonen

Reputation: 8026

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 <canvas> or <video> support).

There are also bug fixes that align IE8 better with HTML5.

Upvotes: 79

Marc
Marc

Reputation: 467

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.

Upvotes: 2

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