PolyFill

PolyFill

1. Definition from the creator?
1. Alex Sexton also classifies polyfilling as a form of Regressive Enhancement. I think that sums it up nicely.
2. A shim that mimics a future API providing fallback functionality to older browsers.
3. A polyfill, or polyfiller, is a piece of code (or plugin) that provides the technology that you, the developer, expect the browser to provide natively. Flattening the API landscape if you will.
1. https://remysharp.com/2010/10/08/what-is-a-polyfill
2. Phonegap
1. “The ultimate purpose of PhoneGap is to cease to exist.”
2. PhoneGap is the most comprehensive, and most influential polyfill in the history of web development. PhoneGap had the audacity to envision the web as a first-class citizen on mobile, and did so in an era when we were hacking around the bug-laden iOS 4 and Android 2.2 browsers. But like all polyfills, PhoneGap was built with its ultimate obsolescence in mind — in fact, it’s one of the frameworks’s founding goals.
1. http://developer.telerik.com/featured/diminishing-use-case-hybrid-apps/