HTML5 and previous browsers

Posted on May 30, 2013 by alex
  • Using HTML5 semantic elements today
  • The Story of the HTML5 Shiv by Paul Irish
  • html5shiv (from GitHub)
  • CSS Specific for Internet Explorer
    1. IE Conditional Comments 
      <!--[if IE 8]>
<style type="text/css">
	/* css for IE 8 */
</style>
<![endif]--> 
<!--[if lt IE 8]>
	<link href="ie7.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<![endif]-->
    2. CSS Rules Specific to Explorer (IE CSS hacks) 
      .box {
	background: gray; /* standard */
	background: pink\9; /* IE 8 and below */
	*background: green; /* IE 7 and below */
	_background: blue; /* IE 6 */
}
    3. Conditional HTML Class 
      <!--[if lt IE 7 ]> <html class="ie6"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7 ]> <html class="ie7"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8 ]> <html class="ie8"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 9 ]> <html class="ie9"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if (gt IE 9)|!(IE)]><!--> <!--< ![endif]-->
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