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Scott Simontis

Polyfills to the rescue! I'd rather have all the abstractions out there available to my team so that they can use what works best for them than limit them to support customers using legacy technology. I have no problem pushing a larger paload or slower performance on legacy users for my software; I think it helps incentivize change. A lot of times when someone comes to me with an IE10 bug or something similar, it would be cheaper to buy that person an Intel Atom PC than it is to pay a programmer to diagnose, fix, and test the issue.