What is the meaning of polyfills in HTML5?

Question

What is the meaning of polyfills in HTML5? I saw this word in many sites about HTML5, e.g. HTML5-Cross-Browser-Polyfills.

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Answer 1

Here are some high level thoughts and info that might help, aside from the other answers.

Pollyfills are like a compatability patch for specific browsers. Shims are changes to specific arguments. Fallbacks can be used if say a @mediaquery is not compatible with a browser.

It kind of depends on the requirements of what your app/website needs to be compatible with.

You cna check this site out for compatability of specific libraries with specific browsers. https://caniuse.com/