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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...which is why it's so goddamned infuriating to see the same people who rail against polyfills for Web Components serving Object.assign()/Promise/Classes/regenerator/fetch()/etc. polyfills to *EVERYONE*, even users with all of that stuff built-in.
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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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/me braces for the "but some people did it badly!!!" brigade
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