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by salehenrahman 3804 days ago
Uhmm... OP is demonstrating an example using a JavaScript-based polyfill.

If we rejected every feature that began as mere polyfills, we wouldn't have the web that we have today.

Here's just a few examples: we would need images for rounded corners, Gif/Flash/JavaScript for animations, Cookies for storage, Flash for browser-based webcam calls, etc.