https://github.com/github/browser-support

Polyfills & Capable Browser detection
https://github.com/github/browser-support

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Polyfills & Capable Browser detection

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/github/browser-support
• Owner: github
• License: mit
• Created: 2022-02-07T09:07:08.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-01-29T21:28:54.000Z (5 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-02-29T23:02:46.948Z (4 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: https://github.github.com/browser-support/
• Size: 386 KB
• Stars: 120
• Watchers: 91
• Forks: 9
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE
  • Codeowners: CODEOWNERS

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README

        
# browser-support

This library allows websites to maintain compatibility with older browsers, which do not implement newer features. It does so using [polyfills](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Polyfill) for small new features, plus functions to determine if a browser supports a set of features natively or with polyfills.

If you would like to see what features the browser you are currently using implements, you [can visit the documentation site](https://github.github.com/browser-support/) which displays a compatibility table that detects which features are natively supported in your browser.

### How is this used on GitHub?

We use all of these polyfills on GitHub.com. We also use the `isSupported()` function to determine if the browser meets a minimum set of functionality which we expect, browser that return false from `isSupported()` do not send errors or statistics to our backend monitoring.

## Installation

```

$ npm install @github/browser-support

```

## Usage

### JS

```js

import {isSupported, isPolyfilled, apply} from '@github/browser-support'

// Check if a browser is supported

if (!isSupported()) {

  apply()

  console.assert(isSupported() === true)

  console.assert(isPolyfilled() === true)

}

```

## Development

```

npm install

npm test

```

## Contributing

### Adding polyfills

Please do not add any polyfills for ECMA features that are Stage 3 or below. We _only_ wish to polyfill features from ECMAScript that are Stage 4 (about to be included in a new years specification) or already specified.

### Removing polyfills

Polyfills should only be removed after consulting with the `@github/web-systems` who will determine if a polyfill can be removed. This code is designed to be kept lightweight, we do not want to ship dozens of kb of polyfills.

As a polyfill is removed, it may be worth adding feature detection to the `baseSupport` const, to ensure that our baseline moves with our browser support matrix.

## License

Distributed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.