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Re:Show HN: Fast.js – faster reimplementations of native Jav... by felxh on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @04:11PM (#7940261)
I can't speak for others, but if you write browser apps/websites for a generic audience you basically have no choice. The reason consist of two letters: IE
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Re:Show HN: Fast.js – faster reimplementations of native Jav... by throwaway_yy2Di on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @04:16PM (#7940285)
But IE didn't support SVG either until recently? If I read right, it was supported since the same version as HTML5 canvas (IE 9),

http://caniuse.com/#cats=SVG

http://caniuse.com/canvas

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Re:Show HN: Fast.js – faster reimplementations of native Jav... by timmclean on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @04:22PM (#7940337)
Tools like http://raphaeljs.com/ allow you to support older versions of IE.
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Re:Show HN: Fast.js – faster reimplementations of native Jav... by vidarh on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @04:02AM (#7942744)
But likewise you can use excanvas.js to let your canvas code run on IE (emulates it using VML)
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Re:Show HN: Fast.js – faster reimplementations of native Jav... by felxh on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @04:28PM (#7940372)
It is true, you can probably stop supporting IE8 depending on your audience.

[UPDATE: also I was reading SVG/DOM as an or]

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