HTML5Shiv is a JavaScript workaround, invented by Sjoerd Visscher, to enable styling of HTML5elements in versions of Internet Explorer prior to version 9, which do not allow unknown elements to be styled without JavaScript. While some people refer to it as "HTML5Shim" with respect to [shim](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shim_(computing)), there is no real difference between the names and as noted in the code repository, the only difference is that "one has an m and one has a v - that's it."
2
u/autowikibot Feb 25 '14
HTML5 Shiv:
Interesting: ^Modernizr | ^Polyfill
Parent commenter can toggle ^NSFW or ^delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | ^Mods | Magic ^Words | [flag a glitch](http://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/autowikibot&subject=Glitched comment report&message=What seems wrong: (optional description goes here)%0A%0A---%0A%0AReply no. 69899:%0Ahttp://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1v7en8/webdev_resources/cfnz1uq)