title: Conditional Comments Showing up in IE
body: <p>just a quick (I hope) question regarding conditional html comments in IE...</p>
  
  <p>I'm using the Google shiv/shim to allow HTML5 elements to render correctly in IE8 and less, and the head code looks something like this...</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;head&gt;
      &lt;meta charset="utf-8" /&gt;
      &lt;title&gt;Rock &amp; Son Restaurant in Manchester&lt;/title&gt;
      &lt;link href="/rock-and-son/css/reset.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"&gt;
      &lt;link href="/rock-and-son/css/screen.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"&gt;
      &lt;!--[if lt IE9]&gt;
          &lt;script src="http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
      &lt;![endif]--&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Great, I thought, when I loaded IE 7/8 and it worked! But then the conditional comment reared it's ugly behind at the top of my browser (in ALL IE versions, including 9). See screenshot:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/a4qZb.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know why this is? I'm at my wits end trying to fathom it out!</p>