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Sure you can, but it might take you 2-3x as long to get the same results as you could have got by using modern JS features and APIs that aren't supported in old

Sure you can, but it might take you 2-3x as long to get the same results as you could have got by using modern JS features and APIs that aren't supported in older browsers, and it might take you 10-20x as long if you also have to reinvent the wheel for everything instead of using a few good libraries. For most projects in the real world, that is not going to be a trade-off worth making.

austincheney 7y ago
The only way that is true is if your friendly abstraction is producing your test automation for you. Having no understanding of the DOM and the standard APIs then writing without dependencies might take 1000x longer. I was assuming a competent developer when I mentioned this isn’t that hard.