The developers of the underscores starter theme for WordPress are fairly adamant that the the theme supports only Internet Explorer version 9 and above. Unfortunately, there are still a lot of Windows XP users out there who cannot go beyond IE8. While we can’t provide a lot of the cool features for Internet Explorer 8, we can at least make sure that the basic site lays out in a readable manner. To accomplish this, it’s necessary to add the following content to the file header.php
<!--[if lt IE 9]>>
<script>
var e = ("abbr,article,aside,audio,canvas,datalist,details," +
"figure,footer,header,hgroup,mark,menu,meter,nav,output," +
"progress,section,time,video,main").split(',');
for (var i = 0; i < e.length; i++) {
document.createElement(e[i]);
}
</script>
<![endif]-->
I typically add this right before the line with
<?php wp_head(); ?>
I am so glad I found this code snippet! Totally solved my problem! The biggest issue was getting the navigation menu to display properly and I had been looking all over for a solution. Much thanks!
This solution seems to “smoosh” or constrain images disproportionately – any fix?