Detect browser canvas support and act accordingly about easy-pie-chart HOT 3 CLOSED

The plugin was designed to provide a lightweight solution for a single pie chart case. I think if someone likes to support older browsers they should detect the feature with modernizr and implement a good fallback strategy. But in my opinion this should never be part of the basic library. What do you think? Should a lightweight plugin provide fallback for every possible case?

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I do agree that it is the implementors responsibility to do a majority of the testing. However testing for canvas support is a simple test that can make the plugin more resilient.

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I agree on the fact that browser features have to be detected when implementing plugins that heavily rely on new technologies. But I see this as a responsibility of the one who is implementing the stuff, because when every plugin carries tests for their features you end up with bloated JavaScript assets and KB's of code overhead every user has to download on their first request. This results in a decrease of user experience because of longer load times and some tests are really heavy and they are executed for every plugin again and again.

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