Browser support for HTML5 & CSS with Modernizr 1.5

We proud to announce the relaunch of the Web Designers HTML5 & CSS3 browser support checklist, now using Modernizr 1.5 for even more tests and improved accuracy.

Browser Support for SVG and more

It's been a couple of weeks now since Modernizr 1.5 was released and we've been inundated with requests to update our Litmus test page which shows browser "support" for CSS3 and the HTML5 family of technologies.

Well now it's finally here and we're pleased to re-launch the Web Designers Browser Support Checklist with tests for:

HTML5 Web Applications
HTML5 Embedded Content
HTML5 Audio & Video
HTML5 Web Forms & Attributes
CSS3 Properties
CSS3 Selectors

New tests for SVG, Web Sockets and much more

Thanks to the guys over at Modernizr, we can now provide test results for a wide variety of new features including the long awaited SVG tests (I'm sure Bruce Lawson will be happy at that!).

The full list includes:

SVG (including SVG Clipping Paths and SMIL)
Web SQL Database
IndexedDB
Web Sockets
hashchange event
History and Session Management
HTML5 Drag and Drop
Cross-document Messaging

Even Better Accuracy

Know how import it is that our results are accurate and so we're really pleased that the Modernizr library we rely on to produce our results is becoming increasingly bug free.

The issues with Font Face in WebKit have now gone and we're now seeing more accurate results for basic CSS3 properties such as border-radius which is fantastic.

On top of this our developers have spent a lot of time rewriting the site code in an attempt to reduce the likelihood of false results being returned from our end so hopefully our results should be more accurate than ever.

What we don't offer

We'd like to make it clear that the results we provide as only a summary of browser support for HTML5 and CSS3. We strongly recommend you test you code fully to ensure that you get the expected results.

We also don't test for every last feature or browser idiosyncrasy. Beware! Browser manufacturers implement the spec in different and occasionally buggy ways. Again, we strongly recommend testing - there really is no substitute.

Provide us with feedback....please!

We really need your help to make FindMeByIP 100% accurate. If you notice a bug just let us know. You can reach us either by:

Commenting on this post (preferred)
Twitter - @deepbluetweets

Just let us know the error, where it's appearing and which browser and we'll make a temporary fix immediately.

Then as soon as we have a spare moment on Friday our developers will fix the root cause to avoid the issue creeping back in.

We really hope you find these tables useful.

Posted earlier this year by David Smith

Tagged as: HTML5, Browser, CSS3 Quickly find your clients' IP address and HTML5 and CSS3 browser support, CSS3 & HTML5 Availability, CSS3 & HTML5 Data available as JSON

David is a web designer and a front end developer for DeepBlueSky Digital. He's reponsible for designing nice things and then making sure they don't break in Internet Explorer. Currently he's mostly interested in javascript and HTML5. You can follow Dave on Twitter as @get_dave or @deepbluetweets.

6 Comments on this post

Juan said “Thanks” earlier this year

Thanks for this really useful information
Martin said “Opera 10.60” earlier this year

Opera 10.60 supports Hashchange Event
Christian said “IP-Location should be better” earlier this year

Hi, using only one Geo-IP-Location Provider for non-mobile browsers is in-accurate. Take a look on http://ip-geo.appspot.com/#example - I have combined up to five sources to find a better position and offering as an free javascript API.
Jim said “@Christian - IP Location” earlier this year

Thanks Christian, that looks really interesting.
MaxMind's database is sometimes a little inaccurate but it's the best we've found.
Google's for example often doesn't really work for us here in the UK in my experience.
To give you an example your script appears to put us about a city away whereas MaxMind is about 100 feet off...
Thanks for the link though - I'll take a closer look on Friday!
Christian said “inaccurate location data” earlier this year

I generate the center of location data from the different providers. maxmind, google and IPinfodb have a difference of 120-190 km from the center - but google offers only half the count a result! But the IP-location results are inaccurate by definition ...
Scroll down in my other article about this documented experiment: http://united-coders.com/christian-harms/combining-http-and-javascript-apis-with-python-on-google-appengine
Jordi said “Useful” last week

Very useful tool.
But it would be perfect if we can grab plugin information (Flash) and screen resolution
Thanks a lot.