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Dan
Dan

Reputation: 57881

In which browsers is HTML5 parser fully supported?

The HTML5 parser's specification was released years ago, still I don't know if I can rely on it's implementations across browsers.

Example: we know that it's possible to omit quotes in attribute values to save our eyes and traffic:

<input type=text>

Of course, not always:

<span class="link red"></span>

According to the specs, we can also omit quotes here (let's leave debates about readability):

<form enctype=multipart/form-data action=http://example.com:8080/form.php>

Quotation:

attribute values must not contain any literal space characters, any U+0022 QUOTATION MARK characters ("), U+0027 APOSTROPHE characters ('), "=" (U+003D) characters, "<" (U+003C) characters, ">" (U+003E) characters, or "`" (U+0060) characters, and must not be the empty string

But where can I find tests which prove that parser works in IE8, for example? I found that I'm not using new possibilities only because I'm scared it can break somewhere.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 83

Answers (2)

Alex
Alex

Reputation: 11245

But where can I find tests which prove that parser works in IE8, for example?

You will be surprised, but in IE8 only. Create jsfiddle and test it.

It not good to omit quotes. Especially for our eyes and traffic:

  • Your eyes can save the IDE with good parsing
  • You can minified you code, remove quoties, remove spaces, but only GZIP and Cache can really minified your traffic

And you will be surprised again, but http://somesite.com/?search=Im a query string with space is a valid URI and frequent case:

<form action="http://somesite.com/?search=Im a query string with space">
<input type="text" name="get_param" value="im_a_query_param_too">
<input type="submit">
</form>

This form can be using on user search page, for example.

Upvotes: 0

Alex
Alex

Reputation: 2126

Maybe this site is what you are looking for: http://html5test.com/ It tests the supported features of your browser and let's you compare it to most other browsers.

Upvotes: 1

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