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See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiv_(weapon)

I wonder if this name came from the desire of many web developers to stab IE until it was dead?

Wonder no more. It's in the readme! https://github.com/aFarkas/html5shiv#why-is-it-called-a-shiv

I like how they've misspelt "misspelling" there - I wonder if that was deliberate! (I also like how there's even an open pull request to fix the same...)

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