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IE8 beta 2 supports two APIs from HTML5: cross-document messaging and non-SQL storage.
IE8 beta 2 doesn’t implement the HTML5 parsing algorithm or the new elements (no <canvas> or <video> support).
There are also bug fixes that align IE8 better with HTML5.
You can get HTML5 tags working in IE8 by including this JavaScript in the head.
<script type="text/javascript">
document.createElement('header');
document.createElement('nav');
document.createElement('menu');
document.createElement('section');
document.createElement('article');
document.createElement('aside');
document.createElement('footer');
</script>
You can use this IE HTML5 shim script to gain a basic level of support for the new semantic elements in HTML5 such as <article>.
Modernizr is also a great option for giving IE HTML5 rendering capabilities.
Does it support
<!DOCTYPE html>
Yes it does.
Perhaps a better question is what modern web features IE8 supports. Some of the best places to answer that are caniuse.com, html5test.com, and browserscope.org.
HTML5 means a lot of different things to different people. These days, it means HTML, CSS, and JavaScript functionality. The term is becoming a bit "Web 2.0"-like.
Also are supported HTML5 hashchange event and ononline, offline event
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