Title: [Plugin: HTML5shiv] Why not jQuery instead?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: HTML5shiv] Why not jQuery instead?

 *  [iinet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iinet/)
 * (@iinet)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-html5shiv-why-not-jquery-instead/)
 * Why is this any better than using the latest build of jQuery? Maybe, I don’t 
   get the point of this plugin but, I’m guessing that it is another JS help file…
   couldn’t be better than jQuery or could it?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/html5shiv/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/html5shiv/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Ramoonus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ramoonus/)
 * (@ramoonus)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-html5shiv-why-not-jquery-instead/#post-2220485)
 * what are you saying?

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-html5shiv-why-not-jquery-instead/#post-2220485)
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