When Can I Use updates urn:uuid:3f3af560-9e41-8421-c5b0-90741be95325 Alexis Deveria 2010-07-27T10:47:38-07:00 Added feature: Ruby annotation elements urn:uuid:95cf17f5-257f-8569-5e84-3b26099f4bcc 2010-07-27T10:47:38-07:00 A long neglected HTML5 feature has now been added: Ruby annotation. While probably not useful for everyone, it's an important feature for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean web developers and users.

For detailed information on its usage I highly recommend the related HTML5 Doctor article.

]]> Mobile-friendly urn:uuid:bcf9c4cc-4e5e-dc23-b28b-0ccd9a6e06bf 2010-07-22T09:16:15-07:00 Using the powers of Media queries, the When Can I Use website now fits happily to whatever size your device is. It's been tested both with Safari/iOS as well as Opera Mobile, and any other device/browser with proper media query support should work as well.

]]> Opera 10.60 released urn:uuid:93df2e3c-51a7-888d-b19f-19d39bac24b8 2010-07-01T05:06:31-07:00 A somewhat minor but not insignificant new release, Opera 10.60 supports the following new WCIU features: Offline web apps, Web workers and Geolocation. Also significant is support for the new WebM video format, making it the first stable WebM-capable browser.

]]> More features added: IndexedDB, CSS3 Background-image options urn:uuid:9ea102d4-061e-0ebb-eaf5-348b8356f633 2010-06-25T06:54:31-07:00 Two features that had been kind of missing on WCIU: IndexedDB had previously been combined with Web SQL Database since they serve the same purpose, but I have split them up now to avoid confusion.

Then there's the new CSS3 Background-image options including background-clip, background-origin and background-size. While nobody's reported this feature as missing, the new properties offer some interesting possibilities and deserve inclusion.

Two other minor updates: I've moved Chrome 6 up to be released later this year, with Chrome 7 in the "future". I've also changed the labels of the "Past" and "Far Past" columns to "Previous version" and "Two versions back" which more accurately describe the browser versions they contain.

]]> IE9 Preview 3 released, supports Canvas and lots more urn:uuid:d737452a-18b9-067d-8ad5-2e8b8ffcd4df 2010-06-24T06:50:16-07:00 The third IE9 platform preview has been released, with the biggest news being support for the Canvas element.

It goes much further than that, however. Other new WCIU features include: Multiple CSS backgrounds, SVG in CSS backgrounds, HTML5 audio, CSS calc(), hsl() and hsla(), and the Canvas Text API. WOFF support is also confirmed (was already expected), and the TTF and OTF font formats also surprisingly appear to be supported now, so @font-face now has proper support instead of partial.

As a result, the default WCIU summary gives IE9 an actual hint of green, beating Safari 3.2 and Opera 10.0. Excellent news, who knows what will come next?

]]> Box-shadow is back urn:uuid:f7947050-aee1-5296-3d79-feb6e89012c2 2010-06-15T12:36:28-07:00 A new Working Draft has been published by the W3C for the CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module, which re-includes the popular box-shadow feature that had been removed from the Candidate Recommendation spec. Effectively, it now appears again by default on WCIU.

]]> Opera 10.60 to support Web Workers and Offline Web Apps urn:uuid:236a28c7-8cde-9574-084e-639ccaef2cf7 2010-06-14T05:46:40-07:00 In today's snapshot build, Opera has announced two new HTML5 features: Web Workers and Offline web applications. Additionally, support is confirmed for Geolocation, the WebM video format as well as an update for Cross-Document Messaging.

]]> Safari 5 update: 3D transforms and SVG-in-CSS urn:uuid:f7bf1948-34b3-64aa-18d8-c6d3b46a9187 2010-06-08T12:29:31-07:00 Two more WCIU features discovered in Safari 5: 3D CSS transforms (Mac/mobile only) and much improved SVG-in-CSS support (previously didn't allow tiling/scaling).

]]> Safari 5 released urn:uuid:167f4237-4d45-3d65-358e-768171115b29 2010-06-07T19:37:37-07:00 Safari 5 was released today, with the following new WCIU features: Server-sent DOM events, Geolocation and Websockets. See the Safari HTML5 page for more information.

]]> Chrome 6 to support Server Push Events (EventSource) urn:uuid:93c36c54-4498-167e-3da9-3f61ca6f4743 2010-05-27T05:59:14-07:00 Back in 2006(!) Opera 9.0 supported a new pre-HTML5 (then Web Apps 1.0) element named event-source that allowed the server to continuously send data to the browser. Since then, the specification rolled into HTML5 and changed heavily. The feature now is a JavaScript object knows as EventSource, and will be supported by Chrome 6. Note that Opera's current implementation is still based on the original spec, though can probably be emulated to match Chrome's support by use of clever hacking.

]]> Now on twitter urn:uuid:2ae2fb0d-608e-a3b5-43e2-002adfa95c86 2010-05-25T11:35:23-07:00 For your convience, you can now follow @whencaniuse on twitter. Like the atom feed it will give you updates on browser releases and feature changes, but you can also use it for quick communication about anything on the site.

]]> Google Chrome 5.0 released urn:uuid:8aa762f8-d663-1db0-5277-c63f7862b64c 2010-05-25T10:17:28-07:00 A new final release of the Google Chrome browser: Milestone 5.

New WCIU features include Geolocation, WebGL (disabled by default), SVG filters, the Web Open Font Format (.woff) and better SVG SMIL support.

]]> Feed spam urn:uuid:eaf85c01-dfa9-32c9-bb25-a6bd6581427c 2010-05-20T12:25:10-07:00 Yesterday (May 19th) I tried fixing some parts of this updates feed, hoping to make it more valid...unfortunately I wound up making each entry's ID a random number, causing feed readers to think all entries were new on each update.

My sincere apologies for the "spamming" effect this has caused, I do believe the problem has been taken care of now. Please let me know if the problem continues. Thanks!

]]> "Conclusions" hidden by default urn:uuid:3bfa2cd8-0d33-b362-a93a-ad9478ff4c62 2010-05-19T06:22:59-07:00 When I first started "When Can I Use", part of my goal was to highlight how many neat features people could use if it weren't for Internet Explorer. That's why I added a calculated "Conclusion" to each table that indicates whether or not a feature is supported by all visible browsers/versions. By default it would usually wind up saying "Not ready, waiting for IE(6,7,8) to expire".

Since then, WCIU has mostly become a reference guide to web developers, and the conclusion serves little purpose. I have thus removed it by default, offering the option to enable it using the "Show conclusions" checkbox.

]]> SVG effects for HTML elements, some Chrome developments urn:uuid:cb7c190c-2d0e-fb6c-47d8-a10fa4ee13a1 2010-05-14T12:22:34-07:00 There's been an "SVG effects for HTML elements" feature in the "unofficial" category, which had been referring to a specification by Mozilla on using SVG effects using CSS. Since it occurred to me that the same is possible by embedding HTML into SVG using the foreignObject element, I've tweaked the feature a bit and changed its status. making it appear by default. Some very neat effects can be created with this.

Other news: since Chrome 6 is now on the dev channel, I expect Chrome 5 to be released soon. Seems like the File API didn't make it to Chrome 5, so it's been bumped to 6.

]]> WAI-ARIA update, early calc() support in Firefox 4.0 urn:uuid:e87accf4-e0d5-9614-0be7-ccd5f57a4f0f 2010-05-13T07:46:28-07:00 I've updated the WAI-ARIA table based on this helpful chart, thanks goes to Lars Gunther for pointing that out. Additionally, the long desired calc() function in CSS has now begun receiving support in the latest Firefox nightlies, so I have added a table for the feature.

]]> Major link update urn:uuid:4da7ce98-4790-fb0c-564a-4e20b9c68be7 2010-05-11T10:26:14-07:00 I've gone through all external links on WCIU, removing outdated ones and replacing them with newer, more useful ones. New links have been added for almost every feature, including tutorials, demos and extensive articles. Hope you find them useful, please let me know if there's anything missing that you feel should be there.

]]> Firefox 3.7 now 4.0, will have form of web database support urn:uuid:1b72c93a-30e1-6ee5-870d-c46eb3e9f266 2010-05-11T09:02:33-07:00 Mozilla has announced that the upcoming version will be 4.0, rather than use the 3.7 marker used for the nightlies thus far. One of the new features will be support for the Indexed Database API, which I have combined with the database storage feature.

]]> IE9 Preview 2 released, HTML5 mode enabled in FF3.7 urn:uuid:09af066e-bc27-3ea7-f7b4-fd97c478a03e 2010-05-05T10:19:41-07:00 The IE team has released a new version of their "Platform Preview", with some great new improvements. For WCIU this means support for Media Queries as well as getElementsByClassName (a DOMContentLoaded table may also be added soon). On the default settings, this means a 48% score, putting it just above Firefox 3.0 and Safari 3.1.

Additionally, the Firefox 3.7 nightlies now have HTML5 mode enabled by default, which means it's now considered supported in the Inline SVG in HTML5 feature.

]]> Faster page load, URL feature search urn:uuid:0d183226-b416-bbe5-3f1a-921878f9b360 2010-05-05T10:01:46-07:00 I've made some optimizations to make WCIU load faster, and made it easier to get to a given feature from the URL. You can now simply go to http://caniuse.com/featureid to see only that feature. If the feature does not exist with the given ID, it will do a search for the string instead. So http://caniuse.com/shadow will show both the Text-shadow as well as the Box-shadow tables. Enjoy!

]]> WebGL status changed to "Working Draft" urn:uuid:a1ff9b40-8527-bdf2-620f-3dcf8a18b229 2010-04-30T13:13:51-07:00 On December 10, 2009, the WebGL WG at Khronos released a working draft of the WebGL specification, and somehow I missed it. Until now, WebGL had been marked "unofficial" on WCIU, but since this is an effort supported by all but one browser vendor, I've gone ahead and changed that to "working draft", despite not being a W3C working draft.

It's also worth noting that currently no browser supports WebGL by default, it has to be manually enabled.

]]> Added Cross-Origin Resource Sharing feature urn:uuid:22390943-f050-86f7-895a-3cf416a63141 2010-04-28T12:10:20-07:00 By popular demand, I have added the Cross-Origin Resource Sharing spec to the WhenCanIUse tables. Additionally, I've made each feature's "id" searchable, so searching for just "cors" will bring up the feature.

]]> SVG updates in upcoming browsers urn:uuid:c252283a-4ada-348d-61e2-1765a5d00389 2010-04-27T08:59:31-07:00 As the Webkit people continue to improve their SVG support, we can expect adequate support for SVG filters in Chrome 5 and probably the next Safari, so these have been set to "partial" support. Their SMIL support has also improved nicely, so I'm considering that "supported". Gecko's SMIL support is also coming along very well, so that's considered "supported" for Firefox 3.7 too.

]]> New domain name urn:uuid:bc3fda3b-617a-27a3-cbdf-efbc1cf7afc7 2010-04-27T07:06:32-07:00 I'm happy to report that When Can I Use is moving from the old address at http://a.deveria.com/caniuse/ to the much friendlier http://caniuse.com. when.caniuse.com will also work. The original address will continue to work as a redirect.

]]> Misc updates urn:uuid:da8acf03-84ea-1965-87d0-f5fd1dd4445f 2010-04-21T11:44:11-07:00 Made a few updates in the past few days:

The WOFF font format is expected to be supported in IE9 as well as Opera 10.*, since each respective company joined Mozilla in submitting the format to the W3C.

SVG Fonts are no longer expected to appear in Firefox 3.7, despite previous plans. HTML5 form features, however, will have partial support. (thanks again, Magne Andersson)

WebGL support was incorrectly included in Chrome 4 and Opera 10.5, so this has been removed. (thanks to Peter Lubbers)

]]> More Internet Explorer 9 news and developer build released urn:uuid:4ec176ca-5b32-a091-a08c-6c55eb80646e 2010-03-16T10:56:55-07:00 More blanks have been filled out for IE9 today, with the release of a developer build. Big news is initial support for SVG, as well as for HTML5 Video, DOM events, XHTML and a few more CSS features. More information may be revealed in the next few days. For a side-by-side comparison of IE8/IE9, see the browser comparison chart.

]]> Opera 10.50 update urn:uuid:5e625416-d467-7557-d3fd-edccb2a316e7 2010-03-09T09:35:41-08:00 A small update to information for Opera 10.50. Apparently geolocation, while briefly available in the snapshot builds, did not actually make it to the final version, so has been removed. On the other hand, the Canvas Text API is supported, which was missing before. Thanks to David Leunen and Fabien Menager for the information.

]]> Opera 10.50 final released (Windows only) urn:uuid:01d9924b-0023-32b2-d46c-218eeeb3c67f 2010-03-02T06:15:37-08:00 Today, Opera 10.50 (aka 10.5) was released for Windows, with many new supported features. The list includes everything in the CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders Module, Transforms, Transitions, HTML5 Video, Audio, name/value and database storage (Web Storage) and Geolocation too. See also the full WCIU comparison between Opera 10 and 10.5. One other WCIU update is the news that Chrome 5 will offer native Geolocation support as well as support for the File API.

]]> Chrome 4.0 released urn:uuid:4450a7dd-4933-99dd-5fb9-1d7141aa26e3 2010-01-25T09:17:06-08:00 Today the Chromium blog announced a new stable channel update, effectively releasing Chrome 4.0. WCIU feature updates include full offline web apps support, font-face support, anti-aliased rounded corners, Web GL, and Web sockets.

]]> Firefox 3.6 released, new features added urn:uuid:bd616b59-7fcb-c2b6-cd3a-eadd4943d276 2010-01-21T06:05:36-08:00 Today Firefox 3.6 was released, knocking Firefox 2 out of the "Far past". New features since 3.5 (that appear on WCIU) include support for: CSS3 Multiple backgrounds, the File API, CSS Gradients and the WOFF font format.

In addition to the newly added File API feature, I've also added the Web Sockets API. Still an editor's draft so considered "unofficial", but supported in Chrome 4.

]]> Opera 10.5 (Presto 2.5) pre-alpha released urn:uuid:adeed963-dae0-f39e-a945-f529458f689a 2009-12-22T06:54:09-08:00 Today, the first public build of Opera 10.5 was released with all sorts of lovely new standards support. Most of the new support since Opera 10.1 was already known from the Presto 2.3 information, added now to WCIU are CSS3 2D Transforms, Web Database and Web Storage. For the full list of changes mentioned on WCIU, see the Opera 10 - 10.5 comparison page.

]]> CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders, Multi-column Layout now Candidate Recommendations urn:uuid:301c70e6-25d3-e96a-bd03-364a12f365fe 2009-12-17T12:34:34-08:00 The CSS Level 3 Backgrounds and Borders Module as well as the Multi-column Layout Module have now been promoted from "Working Draft" to "Candidate Recommendation". The Backgrounds and Borders spec affects quite a few features on WCIU, including border-radius, multiple backgrounds, multiple borders, and more! Unfortunately the decision was made to not include the box-shadow feature, but it may return to the spec in the future.

]]> CSS3 Selectors now a W3C Proposed Recommendation urn:uuid:5e405c14-612b-6732-b881-8ed35b453d81 2009-12-15T10:08:08-08:00 The CSS Level 3 Selectors Module has now been promoted from "Candidate Recommendation" to "Proposed Recommendation". Interestingly, that makes it the first feature on When Can I Use to actually receive this status. Great news, and once IE9 has been released, all current browsers will fully support this module.

]]> Presto 2.3 (Opera 10.*) updates, spec update urn:uuid:96f8aeec-7e0d-de93-fb96-05eb91540f84 2009-12-11T07:38:34-08:00 Presto 2.3 (Opera 10.*) updates, spec update

Having just discovered the official Presto 2.3 web specification page, I've updated Opera 10.*'s CSS3 features. Most I already knew of, but I've now acknowledged support for CSS3 Transitions and Multiple Backgrounds.

Additionally, I noticed the Web Database API is no longer part of Web Storage and have thus adjusted its name and spec URL.

]]> Firefox 3.7 urn:uuid:5b47edad-3eb6-9bc5-618a-41506397dfd6 2009-12-03T06:38:05-08:00 Changed "Firefox 4.0" to 3.7 to be consistent with Mozilla's current versioning. Note that I'd been looking at the features for 3.7 when updating "4.0", so no information is actually changed here.

]]> Official IE9 news urn:uuid:31ee70c9-4b4c-4a93-a0f4-d7608ac9bdef 2009-11-18T10:12:25-08:00 The first official information about Internet Explorer 9 has been released, with two small tidbits that apply to WhenCanIUse: CSS3 selectors and border-radius. Seems like they're supported pretty well based on the screenshots, so I've marked them as "supported". I have also changed the URL to the CSS gradient spec to reflect the one in the latest W3C Editor's Draft

]]> Firefox 3.6 adjustments urn:uuid:f81a6fd7-6582-cc2b-a943-8b3b07d5a4b2 2009-11-10T05:48:34-08:00 Made a few fixes to Firefox 3.6 support, it does not include support for SVG fonts as mentioned previously, however it does support the new (but currently unofficial) WOFF font format. Considering the future significance of this format, I have added it as a feature too. I also changed the link for the multiple background support example, to one that works in both Safari as well as Firefox 3.6. Bonus link: Firefox 3.6 for developers.

]]> Belated update note urn:uuid:5b07859f-c173-89ef-d40f-4320be2b0cea 2009-11-09T11:49:56-08:00 A few weeks ago I made some updates to WCIU, but forgot to mention them in this update feed.

Chrome 3 is now the "stable" build, and Chrome 4 has been added for the Future. Chrome 3 supports the "audio" element, and Chrome 4 will finally have anti-aliased rounded corners.

Also all features for Firefox 3.6 have now been decided on, so some of the previously mentioned features (SVG-in-CSS, SVG SMIL, etc) have been moved to Firefox 3.7/4.0.

A new "unofficial" feature has also been added to the page: "3D Canvas graphics / WebGL", which has been gaining popularity.

Thanks goes to Magne Andersson for the Firefox info and the reminder to update this feed.

]]> Firefox 3.6 info updated urn:uuid:45edc164-d6c0-de2e-5ab4-6cc22c83836e 2009-08-10T06:18:51-07:00 The first Firefox 3.6 alpha has been released. Of my current information, the Multiple backgrounds feature is the only new feature implemented in this release, with CSS Gradients support added too. Also Magne Andersson was kind enough to inform me of upcoming support for CSS Transitions in 3.6/4.0, so I've added that too. Note that some features currently mentioned in WCIU (SVG ones, specifically) don't appear in the alpha yet, but they are still expected to be included for the final version.

]]> Minor updates urn:uuid:99bcd222-abf6-7ad6-0ad5-8624d46f75e3 2009-08-07T07:09:49-07:00 Minor updates: Changed Chrome 3 to support Web Storage, added geolocation demo link, changed CSS3 Text-shadow status to "Working Draft", fixed a typo.

]]> CSS3 Flexible Box Layout Module published urn:uuid:7c6932d1-0097-0ef2-83d4-798a63baef3f 2009-07-23T13:02:40-07:00 Today, the W3C's Flexible Box Layout Module specification was published as a Working Draft and has been added to the When Can I Use tables. The interesting thing about the spec is that Firefox, Safari and Chrome all already largely support it (it's used in XUL, Apple Desktop widgets, etc). I've been experimenting with it recently and it's pretty powerful stuff! Now let's see how long before we see it in IE and Opera...

]]> Google Gears support, 3D transforms in Webkit urn:uuid:9e1106fd-dcd6-463d-2759-f99f129519c0 2009-07-14T11:15:28-07:00 Some minor updates: First, I've set all features supported by Google Gears to be "partially" supported by Chrome, which seems like the most accurate description. I have also noted that Safari 4.* will support 3D Transforms, based on the latest webkit builds (see this cool demo)

]]> Geolocation feature added urn:uuid:b5491ae4-534f-4e2f-22f7-9e060d3baeda 2009-07-10T13:31:19-07:00 I have added the Geolocation spec as a feature, works in FF3.5 and Chrome 2. Thanks go to Magne Andersson for the suggestion!

]]> Category changes urn:uuid:65d3342e-ee96-07fa-94f2-40dff7dd10b0 2009-07-09T05:55:32-07:00 I've filed the "Web Storage" and "Event Source" features under "Other" rather than "HTML5", since they are no longer part of the HTML5 specification.

]]> Firefox 3.5 goes final, plus updates/corrections urn:uuid:228e36b5-344a-3851-bec5-a4dd2bc1892b 2009-07-08T13:16:40-07:00 Several minor updates to WCIU, thanks go to Andy L for submitting some corrections.

- Firefox 3.5 final has been released and now appears as "Present".

- Several URLs have been corrected/updated

- Fixes to Chrome support: No client-side DB support, no Web Workers in V2.

]]> Video support information updated urn:uuid:88341898-fccb-0c57-9bec-88a03d171df7 2009-06-15T05:53:15-07:00 I have changed the stats for video support for Safari and Chrome, which initially was "partial" for not supporting Ogg Theora by default. However, since the HTML5 spec now clarifies that browsers may choose which codecs they support, they can all be said to provide decent video support.

]]> Safari 4 released urn:uuid:001767b5-aae0-aa84-fe46-1e68eb023599 2009-06-08T12:25:28-07:00 Safari 4 has been released today, seems pretty much the same as the Beta released earlier. To see the new features since 3.2, go to the Browser comparison page.

]]> Chrome 3.0 with video support now on dev channel urn:uuid:d5b2aa46-97c9-b4bd-8116-aa0a56c2aa78 2009-05-28T06:11:46-07:00 The first real Chrome 3.0 build was released on the Chrome Dev channel today, with the big news being the support for the video element. It's a bit unclear right now what codecs it will support (currently it seems to be a proprietary one), but nonetheless it's exciting news. See more information.

]]> RSS Feed for When Can I Use urn:uuid:85d48ae7-6d0b-ff20-2201-562823af83e5 2009-05-27T11:58:15-07:00 Created an RSS feed for When Can I Use changes. You're reading it now! I've added two previous entries so you can see what kind of information you can expect here.

]]> New mode: Browser comparison urn:uuid:e2cca6b2-3fb9-796a-2289-970b56ed1559 2009-05-26T10:55:33-07:00 A new browser comparison mode has been added. Read the blog entry for more information, or try it out yourself!

]]> Chrome 2.0 now in the "present" urn:uuid:4b97080e-02d9-729b-fdc7-d79e5aa7743e 2009-05-21T11:12:59-07:00 Chrome 2 has been released, so I have moved it up in the ranks. According to the WCIU default summary, this makes it the most feature-rich "stable" browser available. There's a slight difference between the version they switched to and the current development version, so I have left that version as "Near Future (2009)".

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