It’s a failure of stakeholders to be good stewards. This sort of on the fly patching service should be a part of browser maintenance. There should be a collaborative polyfill.js service like Dennis described or The Financial Times has, maintained by Microsoft, google, safari, Mozilla, and web standards orgs. Any website that needs to call or should be able to for free.
Legacy support has become atrocious and it shouldn’t fall to web developers to deal with, because the end result is what Bloomberg does, and a shitty experience for the consumer.
His work also ended up being so good, it effectively eliminated completion and the need for businesses on either end of the web (browser/site) to take it upon themselves to make things better.
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It’s a failure of stakeholders to be good stewards. This sort of on the fly patching service should be a part of browser maintenance. There should be a collaborative polyfill.js service like Dennis described or The Financial Times has, maintained by Microsoft, google, safari, Mozilla, and web standards orgs. Any website that needs to call or should be able to for free.
Legacy support has become atrocious and it shouldn’t fall to web developers to deal with, because the end result is what Bloomberg does, and a shitty experience for the consumer.
His work also ended up being so good, it effectively eliminated completion and the need for businesses on either end of the web (browser/site) to take it upon themselves to make things better.