Lea Verou’s blog

If you’re a web developer, you may find the title baffling. “Polyfills need defending? Who’s against them?!” you might ask. Two weeks ago, I’d be in the same boat. Polyfills and I go way back. I dug up a JSConf EU talk of mine from 2011 on exactly this topic. Trying not to think about how young I look here 😅 One of the few opinions I have held strongly over the years is that polyfills are a net positive for the Web, and the good outweighs the rare failure cases where polyfills became too…