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Sep 15.2011

Hi there,

I am building a site and I am using HTML5 markup. I expected some problems in IE but what I’m getting is just crazy.

I am using the html5 shiv from google but I don’t think it’s being recognised. This is my head element in full:

<head>
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=UTF-8″ />
<title>Rock 2.0</title>
<!–[if lt IE 9]>
<script src=”http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js”></script>
<![endif]–>

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”../css/header.css”>
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”../css/loginbox.css”>
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”../css/main.php”>
<meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width, initial-scale=1, user-scalable=yes”>

<script src=”../scripts/thickbox.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>
<script src=”../scripts/webforms2.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>
<script src=”../scripts/modernizr.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>

</head>

in safari, opera, firefox, chrome the site looks awesome, however in IE8 the site is just completely white (text and background) images are just randomly placed, <li> lists are unstyled and horrific. if someone can spot an error with my head element or use of the shim, i’d be grateful.

Thanks

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@SpytimauthorSep 15.2011 — Here are screenshots:

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@aj_nscSep 15.2011 — 
  • 1. No doctype???

  • 2. Modernizr has an html5 shim included in it (unless you specifically built modernizr without it). No need to include a second separate html5 shim script.
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    @SpytimauthorSep 15.2011 — Hi aj,

    the doctype is included in the index.php which then pulls various other elements into it, eg:


    <!DOCTYPE html>

    <?php include('header.php'); ?>

    <?php include('content.php'); ?>

    <?php include('footer.php'); ?>
    [/QUOTE]

    I have tried various combinations of shim and modernizr... the results don't change ?
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