Re: So I ran some of my code through W3C’s validator……..

[Kitty Giraudel]

> Now, this may seem like a stupid question, but if I use the doctype for html 5 and start using html5 , will the pages be displayed properly on older browsers?(like say, IE8)

Yes.

However if you ever use HTML5 elements like header, article and such, you might want to use [html5shiv](http://code.google.com/p/html5shiv/).