Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by idle_zealot 793 days ago
It's not done for compression, it's about tree-shaking and bundling dependencies.
1 comments
trelane 793 days ago
And failing in weird abd obscure ways if your browser is slightly outside the mainstream.

Like if it's SeaMonkey.

link
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.
link
trelane 793 days ago
You mean "not chrome?"
link