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Maybe they're injecting a brazillion polyfills if it's not a known user-agent?
by adrianpike 10y ago
Maybe they're injecting a brazillion polyfills if it's not a known user-agent?
- madmulita 10y agoYet, it works as expected without the polyfills.
- DoctorOW 10y agoRight. But he's suggesting that if they don't recognize the browser that they inject as much polyfills as they can so everything works no matter what.
- popey456963 10y ago100MB? Assuming they're using GZIP, that's normally a 10% compression ratio, leading to about 1GB of actual data. Let's assume this data is stored as 8 bits, that's about one hundred million characters of code! Maybe what they're doing is downloading the entirety of Windows XP (roughly a gig in size), running it in JavaScript and then rendering the page in Internet Explorer within their version of XP.