The Story of the HTML5 Shiv « Paul Irish
►http://paulirish.com/2011/the-history-of-the-html5-shiv
Fast forward to 2008, HTML5 is gaining momentum. New elements have been specified, however in practice, Internet Explorer 6-8 pose a problem as they do not recognize unknown elements; the new elements cannot hold children and are unaffected by CSS. This sad fact was posing quite a big hinderance to HTML5 adoption.
Sympathique billet de Paul Irish, qui raconte comment un certain Sjoerd Visscher a découvert comment « activer » les nouvelles balises du #HTML5 dans #Internet_Explorer, permettant ainsi l’utilisation dès à présent du HTML5.
