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The Story of the HTML5 Shiv « Paul Irish
- j79 15y agoCould anyone explain what the difference is between a shim and a shiv?
- JoachimSchipper 15y agoIt'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 15y agohttp://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shim http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shim http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shiv http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shiv
- geuis 15y agoNot directly related, but play around with Paul's site. Lots of little hidden goodies there.
- bonsaitree 15y agoNice 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/ http://html5boilerplate.com/