Making a footer not rise above the bottom of the screen without extraneous markup

Question

If you only had to worry about Firefox and Webkit browsers, what CSS would you use to make the footer in the following HTML not rise above the bottom or the screen (and go lower

Answer 1

Since you mentioned that your solution worked except for IE, all you need to do is use JS to enable the styling of HTML 5 elements:

http://medero.org/finally.html

That would make the styles apply, but it still looks like, at least in IE6 it needs some extra help.

Is this close to what you need for IE?