title: IE9 Support for HTML5 Canvas tag
body: <p>I am trying to test out the canvas tag, I started with this code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;html&gt;
   &lt;canvas id="example" width="200" height="200"&gt;
      This text is displayed if your browser does not support HTML5 Canvas.
   &lt;/canvas&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In IE8 I get the message: </p>
  
  <pre><code> This text is displayed if your browser does not support HTML5 Canvas.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I then installed IE9 but get the same error. Does IE9 support HTML5 canvas or not?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit</strong></p>
  
  <p>The problem was that I was missing the doctype tag</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
  </code></pre>