To learn more about the conditional comments around the html tags at the top of the file: paulirish.com/2008/conditional-stylesheets-vs-css-hacks-answer-neither/ Do the following if you're using your customized build of modernizr (http://www.modernizr.com/): * insert the link to your js here * remove the link below to the html5shiv * add the "no-js" class to the html tags at the top * you can also remove the link to respond.min.js if you included the MQ Polyfill in your modernizr build -->