Like it or not, a web devs job is to support browsers a site’s users need. As is widely said, supporting and optimising for differ.
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Stack Overflow is hilarious:
Q: How do I do this in IE8?
A: whywouldyoudothat and dontsupportie8.
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Protip: IE8 can go die in a ditch.
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The Audio element fires some odd events. I keep forgetting that I’ve turned off wifi to trigger an error and thinking MDN is down.
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CSSO changes the compressed CSS’s source order. I trust the Yandex team but still it makes me nervous. https://en.bem.info/tools/
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URLs are precious. Four-ten is not to be thrown around lightly.
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Oh wow, Android 4.1.1 is frustrating, wow. On the upside, work’s big responsive project works on phones that should be crushed like a bug.
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I won’t lie, I am pretty pleased with this perf trick.
https://github.com/ResponsiveImagesCG/wp-tevko-responsive-images/blob/46dfaf24b2ca494694a1a4fe18e194357e304ca8/wp-tevko-responsive-images.php#L312-L326 -
React: doomed.
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AngularJS: no theme song. Nothing more to be said.