Although the HTML5 specification still has Working Draft status over at the W3C, browser support is quite good. If you’re using the latest version of your favorite browser, chances are that it can handle some, if not all, of the new HTML5 features. The Wikipedia article Comparison of layout engines (HTML5) seems fairly updated when it comes to what the different layout engines support in case you want to stay on top of what happens on the client side of HTML5.
Amongst the new features are offline web application support, at the time of writing implemented by all the major browsers except for Internet Explorer. For the users of browsers that do support this feature, however, it means that parts of (or your entire) web application can be made available to them even if they for some reason are offline or if your production servers have taken a dive and the website is down. Of course this never happens in your production environment, but this can still be a good thing to know about offline web application support in HTML5 in case you have a friend who you suspect might find himself in this unwelcome challenge some day. Continue reading "HTML5: Going Offline." →
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