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Minimum needed to support HTML5 element in IE < 9
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simple_html5.js
// @roberocity
// this is the minimum to do to provide html5 element support for older versions of IE
for(i in k='abbr|article|aside|audio|canvas|datalist|details|figcaption|figure|footer|header|hgroup|mark|meter|nav|output|progress|section|subline|summary|time|video'.split('|')){document.createElement(k[i]);}
// a better solution may be by @rem, @jon_neal & @aFarkas, but I've had a few errors when printing using this: http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js
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