HTML5 Shiv

HTML5Shiv is a JavaScript workaround to enable HTML5 elements in versions of Internet Explorer before version 9 that do not support elements that are not recognized, thus allowing them to be styled by CSS. While some people refer to it as "HTML5Shim" with respect to shim, 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."

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