[–] j79 15y ago ↗ Could anyone explain what the difference is between a shim and a shiv? [–] JoachimSchipper 15y 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 15y ago ↗ http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shimhttp://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shiv
[–] JoachimSchipper 15y 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 15y ago ↗ http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shimhttp://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shiv
[–] geuis 15y ago ↗ Not directly related, but play around with Paul's site. Lots of little hidden goodies there.
[–] bonsaitree 15y 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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For those not already familiar, Paul is the maintainer of HTML5 Boilerplate: http://html5boilerplate.com/