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by thewakalix 793 days ago
It's not even necessary for compression -- gzip is decent and transparent.
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idle_zealot 793 days ago
It's not done for compression, it's about tree-shaking and bundling dependencies.
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trelane 793 days ago
And failing in weird abd obscure ways if your browser is slightly outside the mainstream.

Like if it's SeaMonkey.

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lxgr 793 days ago
I highly doubt that that has anything to do with minification/tree shaking. My guess would be JavaScript feature and API support.
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trelane 792 days ago
You mean "not chrome?"
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