title: How to get backbone and HTML5 elements to work in IE8
body: <p>I have a very light backbone app which I've been developing recently and I'm having a lot of trouble getting HTML5 elements to work in IE8. I've found multiple blog posts around the place talking about html5shiv and modernizer</p>
  
  <p>I have tried both of these as CDNs and local JS libraries but no matter what IE will not detect the new elements.</p>
  
  <p>I found an <a href="https://github.com/documentcloud/backbone/issues/1378" rel="nofollow">old issue on github</a> that is the same as mine but details that html5shiv should fix my issue but it really doesn't. I've double checked that the JS libraries are loaded and run, I've tried moving it around above my stylesheets, below my stylesheets, and at the very top of the head section but nothing will work. I even found an <a href="http://css-tricks.com/html5-innershiv/" rel="nofollow">old blog post</a> which talks about work arounds for my exact issue, and says that the new html5shiv as of Jan 2013 should fix it. I'm really at a loss here, has anyone had this working nicely?</p>
  
  <p>I'm running backbone 0.9.10 and jQuery 1.8.2 with a Drupal 7 backend but I think these are irrelevant.</p>