Hitch
A lightweight engine that allows you to hitch new capabilities to the browser (prollyfill).
Placeholder Shiv
Tiny polyfill for the placeholder form element attribute. Requires Prototype.js.
Css3 Finalize
Tired of adding prefix for each broswer when it comes to the new css3 attributes?
Augment.js
Modern JavaScript in your IE
CSS3 Pie
A behavior for Internet Explorer allowing it to recognize and render various CSS3 box decoration properties
Svgeezy
Allows for automatic Image fallbacks for browsers that can't handle SVGs
CSS Parent Selector
CSS4 parent selector based on jQuery
Placeholders.js
A JavaScript polyfill for the HTML5 placeholder attribute
HTML5shiv
This script is the defacto way to enable use of HTML5 sectioning elements in legacy Internet Explorer.
Yepnope.js
An Asynchronous Conditional Resource Loader
Stringformatter
JS string formatter that supports objects, currency, date/time, decimals, and more supports easy extension and garbage collection ... goes far beyond sprintf approach.
Poly
Small, fast, awesome. The only ES5-ish set of polyfills (shims) you can mix-and-match because they're individual AMD modules.
Respond
A fast & lightweight polyfill for min/max-width CSS3 Media Queries (for IE 6-8, and more)
Es6 Shim
ECMAScript 6 (Harmony) compatibility shims for legacy JavaScript engines
Selectivizr
Selectivizr is a JavaScript utility that emulates CSS3 pseudo-classes and attribute selectors in Internet Explorer 6-8.
ES5 Shims
ECMAScript 5 compatibility shims for legacy JavaScript engines
Store
A better way to use localStorage and sessionStorage