Since HTML5 is getting more attention by way of marking up our new pages, and the only way to get IE to acknowledge the new elements, such as <article>, is to use the HTML5 shiv, I've quickly put together a mini script that enables all the new elements.

Usage & Download

The html5.js and must be inserted in the head element (this is because IE needs to know about the element before it comes to render them - so it can't sit in the footer of the page, i.e. below the elements in question).

It's conditional within the code, so Firefox et al won't run the code - but it doesn't hurt to wrap it in an IE conditional call to reduce the http pulls for other browsers:

<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
<![endif]-->

I've also minified the file, so it's a matter of bytes to download.

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