» Getting HTML 5 styles in IE 7+
Btw, if you want CSS rules to apply to unknown elements in IE, you just have to do document.createElement(elementName). This somehow lets the CSS engine know that elements with that name exist.
This was uttered by Sjoerd Visscher innocently on a Sam Ruby thread, and it sent ripples of “huh? really? How come I never know that!” through all of the experts.
This fact means that you the following will show up as red in IE 7: