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It's all assumptions right? A prollyfill is assuming a signature/API to be standard someday. A polyfill is assuming that a standard signature/API is to work a certain way. 

 

Not necessarily. 

 

When you write a JavaScript framework, you don’t expect browsers to implement the functions you implemented, you just expect them to copy you on some key points if it turns out your framework is popular.

 

To me, prolyfills are not necessarily leading to implemented ‘native’ versions. It’s quite possible that ‘nich’ use cases remains in the state of prolyfills for years until, maybe, they become mainstream (and when they will, maybe the API of the prolyfill will prove inappropriate).

 

A prolyfill has be standardizable, it doesn't have to be standardized.