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HTML5 compatibility on mobile and tablet browsers

73 points by anandiyer 15y ago

thezilch 15y ago
Ironically, half of this page is unreadable on Opera Mini 6.x
bwaynelewis 15y ago
Ironically, the link is nearly unusable in my android browser!
matan_a 15y ago
Wow, very useful. Sure beats hunting for this information. Is this information anecdotal or have you guys actually done the tests in each environment? It would also be nice to be able to actually select a device + version and then getting a feature set for it. Not a big deal though as this really saves time nonetheless.
- reemrevnivek 15y ago
  Looks like this is a repackaging of http://caniuse.com/ http://caniuse.com/, which does test in each environment: http://caniuse.com/#info_faq http://caniuse.com/#info_faq using this custom-built site: http://tests.caniuse.com/ http://tests.caniuse.com/. No word at caniuse about devices tested, but if that matters then you have a bigger problem. It should be consistent if you have the same software version.
nirvana 15y ago
Of all of these features, the one I most want to see greater support for is Web Workers. I think this could be a huge boon for a variety of interesting client side work, and a nice complement to web sockets...
- olefoo 15y ago
  What are the use cases for web workers in mobile environments? I can't see any good reasons to be using up the viewers battery and limited prrocessing power that way other than for (maybe) backgrounding some of the processing for a web app. On a non-mobile note: If you use my computer to run your map-reduce job without asking me first; I don't like you.
masklinn 15y ago
Why build a new site for it, especially ending up with lower readability, shitty contrasts and 20% of the page lost to a pointlessly huge signpost, instead of contributing to caniuse?
geuis 15y ago
Please set your site to be resizable in mobile browsers. It's not very useful if the text is too tiny to read.
nextparadigms 15y ago
IE9 for mobile seems very far behind in HTML5 compatibility. Is Microsoft going to use the excuse that "they are waiting to do things right", again, while everyone else plunges ahead?
- dillon 15y ago
  Unfortunately, IE has always been behind and I don't think that's going to change anytime soon.
shinratdr 15y ago
I can't speak for anyone else but the only reason I'm browsing this site is so I can see a giant orange & white 5 emblem. I found one but it's a little hard to notice, they should consider making it two or three times bigger. In fact, I don't know why all this space is being wasted by this stupid chart thingy. Maybe they should push the chart off onto another site so that they can stay focused on what is important about this one.
dillon 15y ago
I feel like each browser is better than one another. (mostly)
51Cards 15y ago
Unfortunately the site is badly broken in Firefox 3.6.

73 points by anandiyer 15y ago

thezilch 15y ago

Ironically, half of this page is unreadable on Opera Mini 6.x

bwaynelewis 15y ago

Ironically, the link is nearly unusable in my android browser!

matan_a 15y ago

Wow, very useful. Sure beats hunting for this information. Is this information anecdotal or have you guys actually done the tests in each environment? It would also be nice to be able to actually select a device + version and then getting a feature set for it. Not a big deal though as this really saves time nonetheless.

reemrevnivek 15y ago
Looks like this is a repackaging of http://caniuse.com/ http://caniuse.com/, which does test in each environment: http://caniuse.com/#info_faq http://caniuse.com/#info_faq using this custom-built site: http://tests.caniuse.com/ http://tests.caniuse.com/. No word at caniuse about devices tested, but if that matters then you have a bigger problem. It should be consistent if you have the same software version.

nirvana 15y ago

Of all of these features, the one I most want to see greater support for is Web Workers. I think this could be a huge boon for a variety of interesting client side work, and a nice complement to web sockets...

olefoo 15y ago
What are the use cases for web workers in mobile environments? I can't see any good reasons to be using up the viewers battery and limited prrocessing power that way other than for (maybe) backgrounding some of the processing for a web app. On a non-mobile note: If you use my computer to run your map-reduce job without asking me first; I don't like you.

masklinn 15y ago

Why build a new site for it, especially ending up with lower readability, shitty contrasts and 20% of the page lost to a pointlessly huge signpost, instead of contributing to caniuse?

geuis 15y ago

Please set your site to be resizable in mobile browsers. It's not very useful if the text is too tiny to read.

nextparadigms 15y ago

IE9 for mobile seems very far behind in HTML5 compatibility. Is Microsoft going to use the excuse that "they are waiting to do things right", again, while everyone else plunges ahead?

dillon 15y ago
Unfortunately, IE has always been behind and I don't think that's going to change anytime soon.

shinratdr 15y ago

I can't speak for anyone else but the only reason I'm browsing this site is so I can see a giant orange & white 5 emblem. I found one but it's a little hard to notice, they should consider making it two or three times bigger. In fact, I don't know why all this space is being wasted by this stupid chart thingy. Maybe they should push the chart off onto another site so that they can stay focused on what is important about this one.

dillon 15y ago

I feel like each browser is better than one another. (mostly)

51Cards 15y ago

Unfortunately the site is badly broken in Firefox 3.6.