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polyfill.md

The content is now here: https://exploringjs.com/impatient-js/ch_modules.html#polyfills

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rauschma commented Aug 20, 2019

Note: My goal is not comprehensiveness, my goal is to bring beginners up to speed, without overwhelming them. Accordingly, I’m trying to answer two questions:

What terms will newcomers see often?
What concepts should they know about?

I don’t like the term “prollyfill” (as a non-native speaker, I only recently realized that the “prolly” may stand for “probably”). The following document suggests the alternative “speculative polyfill” which I find more intuitive: https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/polyfills/

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