I would like to utilize boilerplatejs for an upcoming intranet project, however, many of the machines are still WinXP with IE8 (and there's no option in the orginazation for wide-scale Firefox or Chrome deployment).
I've quickly tried incorporating the html5shiv, but that didn't seem to help. It doesn't appear routing or other functionality is working. I'm trying to figure out if this is even worth doing or if someone else has tried to get this working before spending more time on it.
BoilerplateJS core is not designed with any HTML5 features. Though I haven't tested it in IE8, I believe this is very much possible with some adjustments. For example, if crossroadsJS, the library used for routing is not compatible with IE8, still you may easily replace that with pathJS or something else that is IE8 compatible.