Four HTML5 Solutions for Internet Explorer

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Four HTML5 Solutions for Internet Explorer

Updated 2015-07-04 11:11:01

Historically, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has acknowledged web standards with little more than a shrug; If you want to push ahead into HTML5 while continuing to support IE 8 to 10, you have to shim it with JavaScript.

There are several JavaScript libraries that can be used to make IE play well with HTML5:

Modernizer (now in version 2) has a nice modular approach: like JQueryUI, you can choose what features you would like to have supported. The à la carte menu includes elements from HTML5, CSS3 selectors and properties (including transforms and transitions) and associated technologies such as Geolocation, SVG and WebGL.
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