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Windows has the capability to apply shims to mis-behaving applications . Shims are used to intercept API calls and change it. For example, shims can be used to: change the incoming paramters lie about the return values change it to call something else The Application Compatibility Tookit has quite a few existing shims you can apply to your own mis-behaving application. Here's an example of one that ignores your API call and instead calls a completely different API instead: i need a shim that isn't one of the hundreds of shims Microsoft already wrote. i need a custom shim . In my case i want to

Both seem to be used in web development circles, see e.g. HTML5 Cross Browser Polyfills , which says: So here we're collecting all the shims, fallbacks, and polyfills... Or, there's the es5-shim project. In my current project we're using a number of these, and I want to stick them all in the same directory. So, what should I call this directory--- shims , or polyfills ? Arsalan Ahmed A shim is any piece of code that performs interception of an API call and provides a layer of abstraction. It isn't necessarily restricted to a web application or HTML5/CSS3. A polyfill is a type of shim that

Is there any alternative for bikeshedding CSS3 property? It doesn't seem to be supported yet. The white-space property In CSS3, The white-space property is a shorthand for the white-space-collapsing (I guess bikeshedding means they don't know what to call it yet) and text-wrap properties. The white-space property is a CSS 2.1 property supported by most browsers and there are two values for it that collapse new lines: normal (The initial value). nowrap But what does collapsing line feed characters mean? According to CSS 2.1: If 'white-space' is set to 'normal' or 'nowrap', linefeed characters

So I'm using background-size:cover to achieve the desired effect of a background image that scales to any size of the div it's applied to while maintaining the aspect ratio. Why use this method? The image is being applied as the background using inline CSS, dynamically through PHP, based on what's being set as the image in the correlating WordPress post. So everything works great, but is there any fallback to ensure this'll work in at least IE8? Possibly some Javascript fixes? Already tried backstretch and supersized , but to no avail, since they apply the images only to the background of the

Is there any JavaScript Array library that normalizes the Array return values and mutations? I think the JavaScript Array API is very inconsistent. Some methods mutate the array: var A = [0,1,2]; A.splice(0,1); // reduces A and returns a new array containing the deleted elements Some don’t: A.slice(0,1); // leaves A untouched and returns a new array Some return a reference to the mutated array: A = A.reverse().reverse(); // reverses and then reverses back Some just return undefined: B = A.forEach(function(){}); What I would like is to always mutate the array and always return the same array,