In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes kickoff a three-part series about old browsers, fallbacks and polyfills. In part one, Scott and Wes talk specifically about old browsers, how best to support them, and whether or not you should support them at all.

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Show Notes

5:10 - How do you decide if you should support an older browser?

Google Analytics Data
User base / Money earned from that audience
IS it worth it? Time vs Money?

11:35 - How do you test your websites and app in older browsers?

Actual hardware - there's no substitution for the real thing
Browser Stack
Virtual Box
Modern.ie
Can I Use

18:24 - Supporting and Testing Mobile Browsers

Resize your browser
Build a device lab
Remote Debugging
Browser device view
Faking Geolocation
Emulators in XCode / Android dev tools
Browsersync
Ghostlab

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