Frontend & browser·Storage and platform APIs
you checked whether the API existed rather than checking which browser you were in.
Feature detection
Also calledcapability detection, @supports
Testing for the presence of a capability before using it, with `in`, a truthiness check, or `@supports` in CSS. It is the durable alternative to user-agent sniffing, which breaks whenever a browser changes its string or a new one appears. The failure mode to watch for is a partial or buggy implementation that passes the check, which is exactly what a badly written polyfill also creates.