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A '''polyfill''' or '''polyfiller''' is code designed to provide technology that is not native to a web browser. For example, earlier versions{{which?|date=January 2012}} of [[Internet Explorer]] (up to version 8) do not support all the features of [[HTML5]] which may necessitate the use of polyfills to display features of HTML5 which are not supported by the web browser.<ref>{{cite web|last=Sharp|first=Remy|title=What is a polyfill?|url=http://remysharp.com/2010/10/08/what-is-a-polyfill/|accessdate=13 January 2012}}</ref>

==References==