Browser compatibility and IE support for JavaScript functions

[Daniel Axtens]

Raxel Gutierrez <raxel at google.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I want to use this fairly new JS function `Element.replaceChildren()` [1]
> to replace error/update messages. Looking at browser stats, it seems pretty
> compatible but it doesn't work with IE. How should browser compatibility be
> approached?

>From caniuse.com it looks like by IE they mean the old legacy IE which
is now out of support - it looks like Edge supports this. So I would be
happy to use replaceChildren.

In general, while I want to avoid needlessly breaking compat, I'm happy
if things work in Firefox and Chrome.

Kind regards,
Daniel

>
> Also, https://caniuse.com/?search=replaceChildren.
>
> [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/replaceChildren
>
> [2] https://www.stetic.com/market-share/browser/
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