HTML5 Shim vs. Shiv
Beginner at Rails.
I'm coding CSS in my sample application. I understand there is Javascript code to help browsers, i.e. Internet Explorer, support HTML5.
What is the difference between HTML5 Shim and HTML5 Shiv? Is it something worth knowing?
http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js
http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js
My code, y'all:
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js">
</script>
<![endif]-->
Answer
It was originally called the html5-shiv.
Shiv really isn't the right term, as a shiv is a stabbing-implement.
A shim is something which you use to level things out (or prop them up). If a table has one leg that's too short, you might shim it with a piece of wood or a phone book...
So html5-shim is for people who expect html5shiv to be called a shim.
That's entirely it, as far as differences go.
Kind of like polyfills cover over the differences in implementations of features.
In North America, Polyfill might be called "Spackle".