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From: Robert Fentress
Date: Jun 26, 2015 8:49AM

But how do you implement polyfills if you can't test for feature support?
Perhaps the WAPA thing Jonathan mentioned might help with that.

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

>
> > On 26 Jun 2015, at 14:44, Robert Fentress < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> >
> > Perhaps it would be too difficult to develop or maintain or you
> > would incur too big of a performance hit to implement this with
> > JavaScript.
>
> My hunch is yes, on both counts. Also, most of this would not readily work
> for AT on touch devices, as there is no way currently - that I know of - to
> go into "application" mode and handle gestures yourself.
>
> In short, I think it's an interesting thought experiment, but not
> practical. I'd rather see small, very focussed little polyfills that
> fix/bridge one very specific shortcoming at a time.
>
> P
> > > > >



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