I think of a shim as a terse snippet that has a side effect of enabling a feature, and a polyfill as an API implementation. Is that common?
@scottjehl Disclaimer: that’s just my understanding of those terms. Not sure if that’s really the “correct” definition.
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@mathias Interesting. I guess I think of "shim" in terms of the HTML5 shim (createElem)... like an almost accidental enabling of a feature.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@mathias in hindsight, maybe that shim was more just discovered accidentally than it is a side effect. Anyway, confusing. Thanks!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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