Will my website work with downstream browsers that don't support html5 if I use it for my layout?

Question

I want to lay out a website with html5 semantic markup. I'm wondering; if I use html5 and style the sections like I do with html4, will it still render properly? I don't want to use really up-to-date html5 stuff like canvas, I just want to future proof this site.

Answer 1

You can do this by using HTML5 Boilerplate.

It comes with Modernizr (which includes html5shiv), and a lot more as well.

html5boilerplate.com