The important part of a polyfill isn't it's size, per sae, it's what fraction of users you send it to and the connections/CPUs they have (on average). Without weighting, sizes aren't actually costs.https://twitter.com/justinfagnani/status/1047544571654070272 …
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...because it's the folks with those things built-in who are the least wealthy in both connection and CPU. It's literally the most well-to-do who are taxing the poorest and claiming hardship.
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Folks recommending systems that polyfill-by-default are complicit. Tools that send these polyfills to users on low-end devices running modern browsers are more than complicit.
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Let's see, there is native functionality so let me always load the JavaScript from my server to do the same thing, without the native optimizations because I don't know how to feature detect...
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Two decades of denigration of UA detection hasn't helped. Absolutism predictably creates deadweight losses.
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Even more so - transpiling ES2015 features for users on evergreen browsers. We need better tooling to allow for separate builds for evergreen, vs shit browsers.
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