The Modern Web

The Browsers in Question

Far too many browsers exist for me to provide a decent overview of feature support on each. Instead, in this appendix, I’ll stick to the key modern desktop browsers—Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer 10, and Safari—and their mobile equivalents, as I’ve done throughout this book.

As this book was going to press, Opera announced that it would be phasing out its own Presto rendering engine and that future versions of the browser would instead use Chromium, the branch of WebKit that Chrome is also based on. But that doesn’t mean Presto will be going away in the short term—it’s already embedded on many devices that don’t tend to update, such as TVs and games consoles. In the long term, feature support should be considered ...