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If everyone waited for 100% availability, then 100% availability would never come.

• jeremiep 9y ago
  But 80% availability is also pretty weak. Especially for CSS stuff where fallbacks are usually hard or impossible to implement cleanly. This isn't javascript where you can just throw a polyfill (and even there, you're usually trading in multiple kilobytes of polyfills for a random feature you could easily have worked around.)
  • abritinthebay 9y ago
    80% availability is pretty much the norm in web dev, historically speaking.
• sebazzz 9y ago
  Once you need to support IE11 and have designers/QA that want the product to look as designed, it is not possible to use a less sophisticated layout for non-supporting browsers only. Instead, the layout implemented so that it works in all common browsers including IE11, and I don't need CSS grid anyway (I'm not implementing the layout twice, with all the potential bugs that can happen)
  • ravenstine 9y ago
    Not to mention the extra overhead of supporting two forms of layout for the purpose of implementing a developer convenience, the point of which is defeated by having a fallback. (lolwut)