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Why don't more developers “use the platform”?

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singpolyma3 · 1791128893 · focus · HN ↗
> If you search for “sticky positioning” on npm, there’s no package that says “just use CSS position: sticky, you dolt.”
You could maybe find a component that all it does is apply position:sticky though?
1. littlecranky67 · 1791129147 · focus · HN ↗
  Maybe I'm too old, but remember position sticky is relatively "new" and I was around when browsers didn't support it, yet everybody demanded for "affix" solution [0] (the buzzword you would search to find a jquery plugin). Internet Explorer never had position: sticky, and FF only introduced it in 2014. And I dealt with projects until around at least 2017/2018 where enterprise clients would make any webdev required to run on IE12 too.
  [0]: <a href="https://www.w3schools.com/bootstrap/bootstrap_affix.asp" rel="nofollow">https://www.w3schools.com/bootstrap/bootstrap_affix.asp

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