This is one of the most exciting things to happen to the web in *years*. Time to rip out those polyfills, y'all!https://twitter.com/hdjirdeh/status/1125858220919013376 …
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I heard this during the keynote but didn't know how out of date the GoogleBot was. How out of date was it? Also whenever I hear of this I think of
@ftrain's lovely artwork. "I am GoogleBot. I control Earth."https://www.cnet.com/news/the-googlebot-wants-your-aerial-imagery/ …1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Was previously Chrome 42, which was circa '15
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Egad! OK that's a pretty big disconnect from today's web, though one imagines most of the basics haven't changed.
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Huge disconnect. Basic JS syntax has improved by leaps and bounds, and if you served that new JS to old googlebot, would have err'd out
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So it wouldn't even get to the point of analyzing the text? Boy. I thought I remember reading that search was a core competency at Google. I'm surprised the disconnect was that big.
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Script erroring wouldn't block page scanning unless content is script-based (or blocked). A developer choice, and not web default, but fateful.
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The big impact here is that this frees developers from needing multiple versions, which will let them tax users less with mostly uneeded polyfills.
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