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by koolba 717 days ago
Ah! I didn’t realize that. My new hot take is that sounds like a terrible idea and is effectively giving full control of the user’s browser to the polyfill site.
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And this hot take happens to be completely correct (and is why many people didn't use it, in spite of others yelling that they were needlessly re-inventing the wheel).
Yeah... I've generated composite fills with the pieces I would need on the oldest browser I had to support, unfortunately all downstream browsers would get it.

Fortunately around 2019 or so, I no longer had to support any legacy (IE) browsers and pretty much everything supported at least ES2016. Was a lovely day and cut a lot of my dependencies.