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The Story of the HTML5 Shiv « Paul Irish

http://paulirish.com/2011/the-history-of-the-html5-shiv/

by cosgroveb • 15 years ago

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j79• 15 years ago

Could anyone explain what the difference is between a shim and a shiv?

JoachimSchipper• 15 years ago

It's really a shim; I suppose they may have called it a shiv (prison slang for "improvised knife") to be able to talk about putting a shiv into IE...

jerf• 15 years ago

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shim

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shiv

geuis• 15 years ago

Not directly related, but play around with Paul's site. Lots of little hidden goodies there.

bonsaitree• 15 years ago

Nice book plug. I'm reminded of the old CSS Box Model hack for earlier versions of IE.

For those not already familiar, Paul is the maintainer of HTML5 Boilerplate: http://html5boilerplate.com/

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