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No, a polyfill is not a library. It's a dozen lines, not a thousand.
by inimino 9y ago
No, a polyfill is not a library. It's a dozen lines, not a thousand.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> No, a polyfill is not a library Yes, it is. > It's a dozen lines, not a thousand A polyfill can be any size, but there's no size minimum to be a library.
- AstralStorm 9y agoSome people are mistaking a book (actually a module) for a library.
- inimino 9y agoOverly-literal response. A polyfill is a short snippet to implement a missing feature. Notably almost all recent additions to JS and DOM have been designed to be polyfillable where possible. Generally that means under a thousand lines, by the way. A library in this context means a set of functionality built on top of the platform, like jQuery, with its own API, etc. "Use a library" and "use a polyfill" are not the same advice. A polyfill is not a library.
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