HTML and CSS Reference
In-Depth Information
Browser support
Browser support for most of the
API
s discussed in this chapter is very
good. Only Internet Explorer lets things down by not supporting Web-
Sockets or the application cache, but support is being considered for a
future release.
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Key:
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○ Incomplete or alternative support
Little or no support
Summary
This chapter has covered a selection of the most interesting
HTML5
API
s associated with networking and connectivity. You should now be
able to build apps that
Take advantage of the user's location, thanks to the Geolocation
API
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Communicate in a controlled way with pages on other domains
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Write real-time chat and game apps with WebSockets
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