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by politician 4244 days ago
I love it. It'll be interesting to see if browser vendors will start attempting to detect these sorts of polyfill services and respond with their own browser-bundled or -specific polyfills.
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Yyyyeah uh, a browser-implemented polyfill is also called a 'supported JS feature'. Polyfills are for older browsers that don't support a certain feature yet (or I guess for features that are not yet implemented in newer browsers).
Why would a browser want to bundle a polyfill, instead of just implementing the feature in question?
If browser vendors adopted this this opt-in, polyfill-first approach it would make it significantly less expensive and much simpler to progressively rollout experimental features to the public.