What is the meaning of lt
in the following script?
<!--[if lt IE 9]> <script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/html5shiv/r29/html5.min.js"> </script> <![endif]-->
That's an Internet Explorer conditional comment, which reads out "if using Internet Explorer less than version 9 (IE8 and lower), do this...".
When the conditional passes, HTML5Shiv is run in the browser.
HTML5Shiv is a JavaScript workaround, created by Sjoerd Visscher, to enable styling of HTML5 elements in versions of Internet Explorer prior to version 9, which do not allow unknown elements to be styled without JavaScript.
It means the same as "less than". A list of alternative comparison operators you might encounter follows:
(fixed less/greater or equal operators)
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