It was added in the head tag, such as tag address the situation semantic nav, header or the like can not be recognized by IE.
<!--[if lte IE 8]> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.bootcss.com/html5shiv/r29/html5.min.js"></script> <![endif]-->
Ie there is only a browser (IE8 less) identification, thus avoiding the high version of the browser (e.g. Google browser) is loaded superfluous.