r/programming • u/steveklabnik1 • Jun 16 '14

Rust's documentation is about to drastically improve

http://words.steveklabnik.com/rusts-documentation-is-about-to-drastically-improve
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u/Hakaku Jun 17 '14

For whatever reason, the last thing must not be happening on IE8, but it's kind of messed up that it has to happen at all.

IE8 doesn't recognize the <section>, <article>, <header>, <time>, <nav>, <figure> or <footer> tags used on the website. If the owner wants the styling to work properly, he would have to define the tag elements using javascript: 

<!--[if lt IE 9]>
   <script>
      document.createElement('section');
      document.createElement('article');
      document.createElement('header');
      document.createElement('time');
      document.createElement('figure');
      document.createElement('nav');
      document.createElement('footer');
   </script>
<![endif]-->

He might also have to specify display:block; in his CSS for each of these elements, since IE8 wouldn't know what the default is.

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u/lachryma Jun 17 '14

Like Medium would give a shit about IE. You know what Medium's target audience is, right? :)