IE 8 RC1 does not support the <canvas/> element

I tested the html web page with the element in a couple of browsers and it turns out the recently released IE 8 RC1 does not support the <canvas/>  in this release.

The HTML page from the W3C was modified to conform with the HTML 5 standard and verified by a HTML validator. In fact the missing elements in the W3C code were added/rectified using the validator generated error messages.

Here are some screen shots of the result of browsing a web page in HTML 5 in some of the recent browsers,IE 8.0 RC1, Google Chrome 1.0.124, Safari 3.2.1, and Opera 9.1.

IE 8.0 RC1

Google Chrome

FireFox

Opera

Safari