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Divs Sections & Articles

Whats the differance?

For the last few weeks i have been relearning my web dev skills and making
a site for a small business idea.

My last(practice) version used Divs, the site rendered pretty much right in every browser.

My newer version used the newer ‘Section’ and ‘Article’ tags.

I really couldn’t see a difference between them and good ol’ Divs.

But I used em because a book stated their better.

I thought they were doing fine, my site looked nice in IE9, latest FF and safari..

But then i opened it in IE8….

as far as i can tell, ie8 does not apply css data to sections and articles…

Either that or i did something VERY wrong.

Anyway, my point is:

I changed all articles and sections to divs…

No my site renders fine in all browsers and versions that i can check…

So what can sections and articles do that divs cant do better?

I’m sure there must be something…

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@rtretheweyJun 14.2012 — IE8 does not have native support for the HTML 5-specific tags you're using. Look into tools like Modernizr which can expand the compatibility of HTML 5 with older browsers.
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