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Re:Firefox supports supports, gets my support by eli on Monday August 06, 2012 @01:00PM (#4345991)
Fair enough. Though that's exactly what http://modernizr.com/ provides, no?

I realize nobody likes adding extra JS libraries, but if your only trying to access these properties from JS to begin with it doesn't seem like that big a deal.

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Re:Firefox supports supports, gets my support by paulirish on Monday August 06, 2012 @01:11PM (#4346051)
It does, but since browsers have no defined API for this Modernizr deals with quite a few false positives. Putting the onus on browsers to accurately describe what features are present is good.

Plus it's always a good thing to kill off javascript libraries; we don't want to always keep sending JS down the wire when the platform should have this stuff by default.

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