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Polyfill

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JavaScript code that adds new browser APIs to older browsers that lack them.

"Fills the holes" so modern code works on old browsers. Common with IE support before; less relevant today now IE is dead. Different from a transpiler (TypeScript → JS) — a polyfill adds features, not syntax.

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