September 2010
Intermediate to advanced
600 pages
11h 41m
English
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Chapter 10. Feature Detection
Aspiring JavaScript developers developing for the general web are faced with a rather unique challenge, in that very little is known about the environments in which scripts will execute. Even though we can use web analytics to gather information about our visitors, and external resources such as Yahoo’s graded browser support to guide us in decisions relevant to cross-browser development, we cannot fully trust these numbers; neither can they help make our scripts future proof.
Writing cross-browser JavaScript is challenging, and the number of available browsers is increasing. Old browsers see new version releases, the occasional new browser appears (the most recent noticeable one being Google Chrome), and new platforms ...