What is Polyfill

Polyfill

Polyfill is a piece of code which certain browsers are lacking, For example -- IE6 not supporting local storage feature. But does that mean that we wait untill everybody in world moves to latest browser so that we can start using awesome HTML5, ES6, or CSS3 features??? No, Solution is simple, developers write polyfills which mimics the lacking features in older browsers. Using polyfills now you can use this awesome features wihout worrying about unhappy users.

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Understand by Example

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In Conclusion

Rememeber polyfills can be written for missing CSS, HTML or Javascript functionalities. Its best way to keep utilizing latest features of modern browsers.

Here is very helpful link for many polyfills : Polyfills

NOTE: Learn about Modernizr for easy Polyfilling

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