hey there,

I'm curious about what happens when a non-HTML5 browser (like internet explorer 6 through 8) tries to render HTML5 markup.

will the browser ignore the tags? or is there a detection set to replace <footer> with <div id="footer">, for instance?

cheers,
Luciano

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kevin-bcr commented

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jolidog commented

If you check the html.tpl.php template you'll see the following string:

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

That means the theme is using the html5shiv for IE8 (and below) compatibility with html5 elements.
More information at http://html5shiv.googlecode.com and around the web.

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damienmckenna
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Status: Active » Fixed

I think Jolidog's comment answers it.

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damienmckenna
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Title: what happens in non-HTML5 browsers? » What happens in non-HTML5 browsers?
Component: Code » Documentation
Category: support » feature
Status: Fixed » Active

Am changing this to a documentation feature request as the project page doesn't mention the shiv being used.

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luco commented

I'm testing a website in IE 8 and the <footer> element won't get styled - though it's there in the code. am I missing something?

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superstar commented

For non html5 browsers:

When styling classes of the html components (nav, footer etc), you need to declare them like this:

Instead of:
.navigation {}

try:

nav.navigation {}

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superstar commented
Status: Active » Fixed
luco’s picture

luco commented
Status: Fixed » Active

thanks, that did it.

also, I was noob enough to add declarations on the wide CSS and then not view IE fullscreen. d'oh!

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luco commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

sorry, I accidentally changed the state.

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Adam S commented

Does this mean that ie7 without javascript is supported?

EDIT: IE8 less than or equal to without JS enabled the theme breaks. The best answers I came up with by searching is that 15% use IE8 and IE7 (screw IE6) and 1% don't use JS. So that's 0.15% of total users this might be a problem with. However, of the noJS surfers most are tech savvy or have business work filters for JS so they will have new browsers. With my luck I build it for someone who has JS disabled running on IE8 and they will wonder why the theme doesn't work.

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superstar commented

For this theme to work on IE browsers less than IE9, javascript is required.

Personally, I wouldn't worry about 0.15%