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> They didn't support newer HTML5 constructs

I am pretty sure at least as old as IE6 it was really simple to enable the newer HTML5 constructs via JavaScript (leading to small libs like HTML Shiv). Just a couple lines of JS to tell the browsers the element(s) exist, via document.createElement("blah") enabled the elements and allowed styling.

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Oh my... HTML Shiv ( These are the old days man, the bad days, the all-or-nothing days. Marv ) - as far as i remember i still prefered to not relay on js back then - browser support/broken implementations where just spoty/common - also lot's of users/browsers would have js disabled. Only for using an attribute-selector in your css ( which you shouldn't if possible ) i thought that was to much overhead

That's true, but these polyfills weren't necessarily perfect. E.g., IE7 or 8 (I forget exactly which version - it's a long time ago) not supporting rounded corners on buttons.

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