Allows templates to serve XHTML5 markup by adding the necessary JavaScript shim for IE7+ and by converting all new elements to divs and spans with app …

Weston Ruter

This plugin is developed at <a href="http://www.shepherd-interactive.com/" title="Shepherd Interactive specializes in web design and development in Portland, Oregon" rel="nofollow ugc">Shepherd Interactive</a> 
for the benefit of the community. No support is available. Please post any questions to the <a href="https://wordpress.org/tags/xhtml5-support?forum_id=10" rel="ugc">support forum</a>.
Allows templates to serve XHTML5 markup by adding the necessary JavaScript shim for IE7+, and for IE6 by converting all new elements to <code>div</code>s and <code>span</code>s with class names that contain the original HTML5 element name prefixed by “<code>html5-</code>“, for example: <code><article></code> becomes <code><div class="html5-article"></code> 
and <code><time></code> becomes <code></code>
If the browser supports XHTML, the content is served with the <code>application/xhtml+xml</code> 
MIME type. This can be disabled by placing <code>remove_filter('option_html_type', 'xhtml5support_filter_html_type')</code> 
in <code>functions.php</code>.
Note that print stylesheets do not get applied to IE7+ even with the shim, so if you are relying on the ability for IE users to print properly-styled pages, you must force the IE6 renaming behavior for all versions of IE by doing <code>update_option('xhtml_support_add_msie_shims', false);</code>

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