IE explorer is not letting me send this email form

Hello There, I have this code on the html form:

<section id="formMafle">

<form id="form"action="http://maflephoto.com/mafleMailSender.php" method="post" target="_blank" >
<input name="firstName" type="textarea" value="First name" size="86" maxlength="90" class="ui-widget-content" /><br /><br />
<input name="lastName" type="textarea" value="Last Name" size="86" maxlength="90" class="ui-widget-content" /><br />
<br />
<input name="email" type="email" value="email" size="86" maxlength="90" class="ui-widget-content"/><br /><br />
<input name="phone" type="tel" value="Phone Number" size="86" maxlength="90" class="ui-widget-content"/><br /><br />
<input name="weddingDate" type="date" value="Wedding Date" size="86" maxlength="100" class="ui-widget-content"/><br />
<br />

<textarea name="aboutYou" cols="65" rows="22" wrap="hard" class="ui-widget-content">
write us some lines about your great day.</textarea>
<br />
<br />

<input name="submit" type="submit" value="submit" class="ui-widget-content"/>
</form>
</section>

and here is my code with the mailsender.php

<?php

/*$to = 'info@maflephoto.com';
$from = $_POST['email'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$message= $_POST['message'];
$headers = 'From: $from' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
*/



$to = 'info@maflephoto.com';

$subject ="we like to have rates for our wedding on ". $_POST['weddingDate'];

$message = "wedding date:". $_POST['weddingDate']. " ". "from: ". $_POST['firstName']. " ". $_POST['lastName']." </BR> ". $_POST['phone']. " </BR> ". $_POST['aboutYou'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$from = $_POST ['firstName']. $_POST['lasName'];

$headers = "From: $email";

if(mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers)){
echo $from." "."email has been sent, thanks for contacting Mafle Photography, a representative will be contacting you shortly";
}else{ echo"email failed, revisar";}

?>

so far it works perfectly on safari, chrome, firefox on mac and pc and android but when it comes to IE8, it cannot send anything and the cursor transforms into a hand with an exclamation mark. but when I turn off the security...it can work properly, how can I make this work out without to ask the user to take out the security by default on IE8?.


Thanks.

Gus

 

simple answer. Those tags are html5 and as far as I am aware IE8 does not support html5

 

Ok, what about IE9, I have a laptop with windows 7 I'm assuming is IE8 the native browser the laptop have, but What if IE9 then? Also should I have to change those tags to divs?