Now in <= IE8

I started showing my blog around to some folks. They had IE8 installed. Or, IE7. I mean, WTF, right?

Well, here you go, users of the Internet that don’t have a “good” browser. My site now looks correct in your silly browser.

What did I do? I added the “Hey, IE! This is HTML5! Deal with it!” script. It looks like this.

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(function(){
  var html5elmeents = "address|article|aside|audio|canvas|" +
                      "command|datalist|details|dialog|" +
                      "figure|figcaption|footer|header|" +
                      "hgroup|keygen|mark|meter|menu|nav|" +
                      "progress|ruby|section|time|video".split('|');
  for(var i = 0; i < html5elmeents.length; i += 1) {
    document.createElement(html5elmeents[i]);
  }
})();

IE will apply styles to the elements if you define them in the DOM as a “valid” element.

I named the script “ie-sucks.js” and put it on the site.

Hope you enjoy, IE-users.

For those of you in Chrome and Firefox, you get the gold star, today.