Does Internet Explorer 8 support HTML 5?

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BuddyJoe picture BuddyJoe · Nov 14, 2008 · Viewed 325.8k times · Source

Is there any HTML5 support in IE8? Is it on the IE8 roadmap?

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hsivonen picture hsivonen · Nov 14, 2008

IE8 beta 2 supports two APIs from HTML5: cross-document messaging and non-SQL storage.

IE8 beta 2 doesn’t implement the HTML5 parsing algorithm or the new elements (no <canvas> or <video> support).

There are also bug fixes that align IE8 better with HTML5.

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