Bug#705015: ITP: ie7-js -- help Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser
Quoting John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (2013-04-08 21:45:34)
> On 04/08/2013 09:43 PM, Andrew Shadura wrote:
> > It's a shim. You provide the support for the missing features right
> > on your website. When a user loads a page in IE7, this JavaScript
> > detects this and enables replacement implementations of those
> > things. Same as jQuery gives you a $ function, but here it's about
> > redefining or overlaying existing features.
>
> Makes sense and sounds pretty cool! Thanks for clearing that up!
Makes good sense to package this Javascript library for those packages
currently embedding it.
For general use I believe, however, that html5shiv has proven a better
shim. It is part of Modernizr already packaged for Debian.
It might make sense to mention that in long description of this package.
- Jonas
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