Hasty Treat - Old Browsers, Fallbacks and Polyfills - Part 1

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes kickoff a three-part series about old browsers, fallbacks and polyfills. In part one, Scott and Wes talk specifically about old browsers, how best to support them, and whether or not you should support them at all. VueSchool.io — Sponsor Check out VueSchool.io’s new subscription plans. Get access to their entire catalog with more than 160 lessons, including The Vue.js Masterclass, for one low monthly fee. New content and courses are added regularly. Visit VueSchool.io/syntax and get your first month for only $5. Show Notes 5:10 - How do you decide if you should support an older browser? Google Analytics Data User base / Money earned from that audience IS it worth it? Time vs Money? 11:35 - How do you test your websites and app in older browsers? Actual hardware - there’s no substitution for the real thing Browser Stack Virtual Box Modern.ie Can I Use 18:24 - Supporting and Testing Mobile Browsers Resize your browser Build a device lab Remote Debugging Browser device view Faking Geolocation Emulators in XCode / Android dev tools Browsersync Ghostlab Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0	Monday, Monday, Monday,
0:02.0	Open wide Dev fans.
0:04.0	Get ready to stuff your face
0:06.0	with JavaScript, CSS, node modules, barbecue tips,
0:09.0	get workflows,
0:10.0	break dancing, soft skills, web development,
0:12.0	the hastiest, the craziest, the craziest development the hastiest the craziest the tastiest web development treats coming in hot here is
0:18.1	Wes Barracuda bars and Scott El Toroloko Tolinsky.
0:26.0	Welcome to Syntax.
0:28.0	Hopefully you are doing well today.
0:30.0	My name is West Boss.
0:31.3	I'm a full stack developer with me as always is Scott
0:34.6	Tolinsky who is also a full stack developer. Hey, what's up? How you doing today?
0:40.8	I'm doing good. Well I'm actually actually, I'm sick, so I'm not doing great, but I'm doing pretty good.
0:46.0	That's good.
0:48.0	That's good.
0:49.0	Yeah.
0:50.0	Today we're going to be starting off a series of three hasty treats.
0:54.4	Actually, it's funny in the last like, I don't know, maybe a week or so.
0:58.7	I've gotten like four or five people suggest that we do like a mobile testing old browser supporting old
1:05.6	browsers polyfills all that kind of like stuff like how do you use this cool
1:10.4	stuff that we talk about every single time but still support the older browsers that are from a couple years ago.
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