[html5] General consensus on HTML 5 readiness

[Adam Shannon]

There is the script from Remy Sharp which should take care of that for you.

Details: http://remysharp.com/2009/01/07/html5-enabling-script/
Code: http://code.google.com/p/html5shiv/source/browse/#svn/trunk

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 15:15, Jen Simmons <jen at milkweedmediadesign.com> wrote:
> What happens if one of us uses new tags like <article> in browsers that
> don't support html5? Will IE think it's a <div> or will it ignore it
> altogether? If I <article class="news-post"> instead of <div
> class="news-post"> will everything just work out cross-browser? Or are those
> classes lost?
>
> Jen Simmons
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>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Myers, Jay wrote:
>> >
>> > In your professional opinion(s) and considering the state of the spec as
>> > it exists today, would you make DOCTYPE changes to support HTML 5? Is
>> > anyone experiencing significant roadblocks?
>>
>> The DOCTYPE is pretty much a non-issue; it is supported by all widely
>> deployed browsers. Even http://google.com/ uses it.
>>
>> HTH,
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