How to deal with incompatibilities

• Defensive Coding

Write code that contains platform-independent workarounds for platform-specific incompatibilities

Example:split is only supported by JavaScript1.1 or above

if(s.split)//if method exists, use it

a = s.split(“;”);

else //otherwise use our alternative implementation

a = mysplit(s, “:”);

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