triblondon

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by triblondon 2y ago
Hi, I'm the original author of the polyfill service. I did not own the domain name nor the GitHub account. In recent years I have not been actively involved in the project, and I'm dismayed by what's happened here. Sites us
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by triblondon 12y ago
I maintain the polyfill service. I'm very much aware of this issue, and we have tried to take steps to mitigate these concerns: 1. You can easily run the service yourself, just download it from the github repo 2. The hosted version is
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by triblondon 12y ago
polyfills.io is not an FT service. polyfill.io is the original service by Jonathan Neal that our service is based on. It is shortly to be decommissioned. cdn.polyfill.io is our new service, the subject of this HN thread, and a collaboratio
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by triblondon 12y ago
Mozilla's implementation is the problem here, not the polyfill. The polyfill is actually (on this point) a better implementation of the spec than the one that landed in FF 32. What has happened here is that our test runner has loaded
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by triblondon 12y ago
I maintain the polyfill service. I think it's great that more people care about polyfilling older browsers and it would be so much more powerful if we collaborated on one service. Your feedback on polyfill.io is accurate, but out of
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by triblondon 12y ago
Not Mozilla. The polyfill service is made and hosted by the Financial Times. Mozilla just kindly offered us a posting on the Hacks blog.
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by triblondon 12y ago
The polyfill service was created and is hosted by the Financial Times. Mozilla is not affiliated. There are good reasons why you cannot make a good choice of polyfill prior to knowing the browser family and version, primarily due to polyfi