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CHAPTER 4
The Desktop Web
The rest of this topic covers support and features for all browsers, both desktop and
mobile. In the first three chapters, we talked about mobile browsers and what it takes
to build a mobile web app. For the desktop, things are getting better in terms of sup‐
porting HTML5 and what this topic defines as HTML5e. Comparing
Table 4-1
to
Table 2-2
in
Chapter 2
, you can see that support for the five core frameworks is exactly
the same, if not better, in desktop browsers. Because of this, we can feel comfortable
bringing HTML5 into our production applications today.
Table 4-1. HTML5 Enterprise (HTML5e)
Browser
Geolocation
WebSocket
Web Storage
Device Orientation
Web Workers
Safari 5+
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Chrome 19+
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
IE 10+
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Opera 12+
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Firefox 12+
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Of course, you will notice some differences in support. For example, Device Orientation
may not make a lot of sense for desktop browsers, but it is supported in Chrome and
Firefox browsers.
Although Geolocation does not fall under HTML5, I am including it
under HTML5e because of its value to modern web apps and its wide
support in most browsers.
