User:Helpfoss/Comparison of web browsers
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of web browsers.
Web browser history
General information
Browser | Latest Stable Software Release | Software license | Current layout engine |
---|---|---|---|
Amaya | W3C | Amaya | |
Arora | GPL | WebKit | |
Camino | MPL, MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license | Gecko | |
Chromium | BSD | WebKit | |
Dillo | GPL | Dillo | |
Dooble | GPL | WebKit | |
ELinks | GPL | built-in, based on Links | |
Epiphany | GPL | WebKit | |
Galeon | GPL | Gecko | |
GNU IceCat | GPL, MPL/LGPL tri-license | Gecko | |
K-Meleon | GPL | Gecko | |
Konqueror | GPL | KHTML, WebKit (optional, unstable) | |
Links | GPL | built-in | |
Lynx | GPL | built-in | |
Midori | LGPL | WebKit | |
Mozilla | MPL, MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license | Gecko | |
Mozilla Firefox | MPL, MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license | Gecko | |
NetSurf | GPL | NetSurf built-in | |
Origyn Web Browser | BSD License | WebKit | |
SeaMonkey | MPL, MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license | Gecko | |
Shiira | BSD | WebKit | |
WorldWideWeb (Later renamed Nexus) | Public domain | NeXTSTEP built-in | |
w3m | MIT License | ? | |
Browser | Release | Software license | Current layout engine |
Operating system support
Browsers are compiled to run on certain operating systems, without emulation. For a given browser/OS combination, browser support status can be one of six possibilities:
- No means that it does not exist or was never released.
- Partial means that the browser works, but lacks important functionality or is very unstable compared to versions for other OSs, that is to say it has roughly alpha or pre-alpha quality, and it is still being developed.
- Beta means that a version of the browser is fully functional and has been released, but is still in development, e.g., for stability.
- Yes means that the browser has been officially released in a fully functional, stable version.
- Dropped means that the latest stable version of the browser does not work on the operating system, although an older version is available that does. The number in parentheses is the last known stable version which was officially released for that OS.
- Included means that the browser comes pre-packaged as part of or has been integrated into the operating system.
This list is not exhaustive, but rather reflects the most common OSs today (e.g. Netscape Navigator was also developed for OS/2 at a time when Mac OS X did not exist) but does not include the growing appliance segment (for example, the Opera web browser has gained a leading role for use in mobile phones, smartphones, the Nintendo DS and Wii, and Personal Digital Assistants, and is also used in Interactive televisions). Both the web browser and OS means most recent version, example: Windows 7 with Internet Explorer 8.
Browser | Windows | Mac OS X | Linux | BSD | Other Unix |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Amaya | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Arora | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Camino | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Chromium | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Dillo | Partial | Yes | Yes[note 1] | Yes | Yes |
DocZilla | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
Dooble | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
ELinks | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Epiphany | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Galeon | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
K-Meleon | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Konqueror | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Links | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Lunascape | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Lynx | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Midori | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Mozilla Firefox | Yes | Yes | Yes[note 2] | Yes | Yes |
NetSurf | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SeaMonkey | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Shiira | No | Yes | No | No | No |
WorldWideWeb (NeXTSTEP only) | No | No | No | No | No |
w3m | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Browser | Windows | Mac OS X | Linux | BSD | Other Unix |
Acid Scores
'The Acide Scores are depend entirely on the Layout Engine-Version, and not for the browser...
The Acid tests are online test suites to determine aspects of standards compliance, to expose web page rendering flaws, and to rate the performance of browsers. Upon each test's release, they are designed so that no existing browser can pass without further development. In order for a browser to pass any Acid test, the latest public release of the browser (not an alpha, beta, release candidate, or other version under development or testing procedures) must meet the requirements shown below. In addition, the browser should be tested upon completion of installation, with no add-ons installed (some browsers make this easy by providing a "safe mode" option) and all the factory settings (no options have been changed from their defaults).
Acid1:
- Final rendering looks exactly like the rendering provided by the Acid tests website.
- Text can be highlighted and radio buttons can be selected.
Acid2:
- Final rendering looks exactly like the rendering provided by the Acid tests website.
- Smiley's nose turns blue when hovered over.
Acid3:
- Final score of 100/100.
- No error messages on final rendering.
- Render-in-progress loads smoothly (no pausing).
- Final rendering looks exactly like the rendering provided by the Acid tests website.
Browser | Acid1 | Acid2 | Acid3 |
---|---|---|---|
Amaya | No | No | No |
AOL Explorer | No | No | No |
Arora | Yes | Yes | 100/100 |
Avant | No | No | No |
Camino | Yes | No | 93/100 |
Comodo Dragon | Yes | Yes | 100/100 |
Dillo | ? | No | ? |
DocZilla | ? | No | ? |
Dooble | Yes | Yes | Yes |
ELinks | No | No | ? |
Epiphany | Yes | Yes | 100/100 |
Flock | Yes | Yes | 72/100 |
Galeon | ? | Yes | 72/100 |
Google Chrome | Yes | Yes | Yes |
iCab | ? | Yes | 100/100 |
Internet Explorer | Yes | Yes | 95/100 |
Internet Explorer for Mac | ? | No | No |
K-Meleon | Yes | No | 53/100 |
Konqueror | Yes | Yes | 91/100 (100/100)[note 3] |
Links | ? | No | No |
Lunascape | ? | Yes | 100/100[1] |
Lynx | ? | No | No |
Maxthon | Yes | Yes | (only in version 3) |
Midori | Yes | Yes | 100/100 |
Mosaic | ? | No | No |
Mozilla | Yes | No | ? |
Mozilla Firefox | Yes | Yes | 97/100 |
Netscape | ? | No | ? |
Netscape Browser | Yes | No | ? |
Netscape Navigator | ? | No | ? |
Netscape Navigator 9 | Yes | No | 52/100 |
NetSurf | No | No | No |
OmniWeb | ? | Yes | No |
Opera | Yes | Yes | 100/100 |
Safari | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SeaMonkey | Yes | Yes | 97/100 |
Shiira | ? | Yes | 74/100 |
Sleipnir | Yes | Yes | No |
WorldWideWeb | No | No | No |
w3m | No | No | No |
Browser | Acid1 | Acid2 | Acid3 |
HTML5 support
The specifications for HTML5 are still under development, but many current browsers already support many of the new features in the draft specifications. An HTML5 test suite is also under development that, while it does not test all of the new features nor the functionality of those it does detect, rates browsers' support. New tests are expected to be added to the suite as time goes by.[2]
Browser | HTML5 Test Points |
---|---|
Apple Safari | 253/450 |
Google Chrome | 327/450 |
Internet Explorer | 141/450 |
Mozilla Firefox | 286/450 |
Opera | 296/450 |
Web technology support
Information about what web standards, and technologies the browsers support, except for JavaScript. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality.
Browser | CSS2.1 [note 4] | Frames | Nav LINKs [note 5] | XSLT | XHTML 1.0 [note 6] | XHTML 1.1 [note 6] | MathML | XForms | Web Forms 2.0 | VoiceXML / X+V | SMIL | VML | CSS Presentation / projection mode[note 7] |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Amaya | Yes | No | ? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ? | No | ? |
Arora | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | No | ? |
Camino | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
Dillo | Partial | Partial [note 8] | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | No | ? |
Dooble | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | No | ? |
ELinks | Partial | Yes | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | No | ? |
Epiphany | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | No | ? |
Galeon | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ? | No | ? |
K-Meleon | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
Konqueror | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? | No | ? |
Links | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | No | ? |
Lunascape | Yes [4] | Yes | Depends [note 9] | Yes | Yes [4] | Yes [4] | Yes [4] | Yes [4] | No | No | Yes [4][5] | Yes [4] | ? |
Lynx | No | Partial | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
Midori | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? | No | No[note 10] |
Mosaic | No | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Mozilla | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
Mozilla Firefox | Yes | Yes | No [note 9] | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 11] | Yes | Yes [note 12] | Yes [note 13] | No | Yes | No | No [note 10] |
NetSurf | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | No | ? |
SeaMonkey | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? |
Shiira | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? | No | ? |
WorldWideWeb | No | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
w3m | ? | Yes | ? | No | Yes | ? | No | ? | No | No | ? | No | ? |
Browser | CSS2.1 [note 4] | Frames | Nav LINKs [note 5] | XSLT | XHTML 1.0 [note 6] | XHTML 1.1 [note 6] | MathML | XForms | Web Forms 2.0 | VoiceXML / X+V | SMIL | VML | CSS Presentation / projection mode[note 7] |
Mobile Web technology support
Information about what web standards, and technologies the browsers support, except for JavaScript. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality.
Browser | C-HTML | HDML | I-mode | XHTML Mobile Profile | WML | WBMP |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Amaya | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
Camino | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
Dillo | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
DocZilla | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
ELinks | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Epiphany | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
Flock | Partial [note 14] | No | No | Partial [note 14] | No [note 15] | ? |
Galeon | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
K-Meleon | Partial [note 14] | No | No | Partial [note 14] | No | ? |
Konqueror | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? |
Links | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
Lynx | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
Mozilla | Partial [note 14] | No | No | Partial [note 14] | No [note 15] | ? |
Mozilla Firefox | Partial [note 14] | No | No | Partial [note 14] | No [note 15] | ? |
NetSurf | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
OmniWeb | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
SeaMonkey | Partial [note 14] | No | No | Partial [note 14] | No [note 15] | ? |
Shiira | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
WorldWideWeb | No | No | No | No | No | No |
w3m | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
Browser | C-HTML | HDML | I-mode | XHTML Mobile Profile | WML | WBMP |
JavaScript support
Information about what JavaScript technologies the browsers support. Note that although XPath is used by XSLT, it is only considered here if it can be accessed using JavaScript. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality.
Browser | JavaScript | ECMAScript 3 | DOM 1 | DOM 2 | DOM 3 | XPath | DHTML | XMLHttpRequest | Rich editing |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Amaya | No [note 16] | No [note 16] | No [note 16] | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Camino | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 17] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Dillo | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
DocZilla | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
ELinks | Partial | Partial | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Epiphany | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 17] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Galeon | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 17] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
K-Meleon | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 17] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Konqueror | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | No | Yes | Yes | No |
Links | No [note 18] | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Lynx | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Midori | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial [note 19] | Yes [note 19] | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Mozilla | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 17] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Mozilla Firefox | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial [note 17] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
NetSurf | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
SeaMonkey | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No [note 17] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Shiira | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
WorldWideWeb | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
w3m | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Browser | JavaScript | ECMAScript 3 | DOM 1 | DOM 2 | DOM 3 | XPath | DHTML | XMLHttpRequest | Rich editing |
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Dillodistro
was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Cite error: The named reference
FFdistro
was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Konqueror scores 91/100 when using KHTML and 100/100 when using WebKit but still does not pass.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
CSS2
was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
LINK
was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b c d Cite error: The named reference
XHTML
was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
presMode
was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Cite error: The named reference
DilloFrames
was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
LINKext
was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
s5
was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Cite error: The named reference
MFFX_ruby
was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Cite error: The named reference
XForms
was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Cite error: The named reference
FXWF2
was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b c d e f g h i j Cite error: The named reference
xhtml
was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b c d Cite error: The named reference
wmlbrowser
was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b c It is possible to compile Amaya with JavaScript enabled, using the CVS version and SpiderMonkey. However, this is still experimental and only a small subset of DOM 1 is available.
- ^ a b c d e f g XPath is a part of DOM 3, but is considered separately here. A large subset of DOM 3 is accessible by extensions but not by websites.
- ^ Support for Javascript has been removed in version 2.1pre29 (change log)
- ^ a b SVG / XPath / (partial) DOM 3 is only available in the WebKit nightlies so far.
See what parts of DOM your browser supports.
Protocol support
Information about what internet protocols the browsers support. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality.
Browser | HTTP | E-mail [note 1] | FTP [note 2] | NNTP (Usenet) [note 3] | SSL | EV | IRC | Gopher | IDN | data:URI | BitTorrent | IPv6 | Proxy possibilities |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Amaya | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | No | No | ? | ? |
AOL Explorer | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes [note 4] | Yes | No | No [note 5] | No [note 6] | No | No | Yes | ? |
Avant | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes[note 4] | Yes | No | No [note 5] | No [note 6] | No | No | Yes | ? |
Camino | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
Dillo | Yes | No | Yes | No | No [note 7] | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
DocZilla | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | Yes | ? | ? | No | ? | Yes |
ELinks | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
Epiphany | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
Galeon | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
K-Meleon | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
Konqueror | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No [note 8] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Links | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
Lynx | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? | No | No | Yes | ? |
Mosaic | Partial [note 9] | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? |
Mozilla | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 10] | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Mozilla Firefox | Yes | No | Yes | No [note 11] | Yes | Yes | No [note 12] | Dropped [note 13] | Yes [note 10] | Yes | Partial [note 14] | Yes | Yes |
NetSurf | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
OmniWeb | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | Yes[6] | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
SeaMonkey | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 10] | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Shiira | Yes | No | ? | ? | Yes | ? | No | No | Yes | ? | No | Yes | ? |
Sleipnir | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes [note 4] | Yes | No | No [note 5] | Yes [note 6] | No | No | Yes | ? |
WorldWideWeb | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
w3m | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | Yes | ? | ? | No | Yes | ? |
Browser | HTTP | E-mail [note 1] | FTP [note 2] | NNTP (Usenet) [note 3] | SSL | EV | IRC | Gopher | IDN | data:URI | BitTorrent | IPv6 | Proxy possibilities |
- ^ a b Many browsers have purposely avoided support for e-mail, as this is reserved for their mail-client counterparts. For a comparison of such counterparts see Comparison of e-mail clients.
- ^ a b Many browsers have FTP support as read-only and have no upload capitilies. Read-only is marked as yes. For a comparison of clients that support upload opportunities see Comparison of FTP client software.
- ^ a b Many browsers have purposely avoided support for e-mail and newsgroups, as these are reserved for their mail-client counterparts. For a comparison of such counterparts see comparison of e-mail clients and Comparison of Usenet newsreaders.
- ^ a b c Support for 256-bit ciphers (AES for example) for SSL/TLS is only available in Windows Vista and above[7][8]
- ^ a b c Internet Explorer 7 has no support of gopher; gopher support is disabled in IE6
- ^ a b c Internet Explorer 7 and later support IDN, [1]. IE6 IDN support can be added by installing VeriSign i-Nav Plug-In.
- ^ Dillo has experimental SSL integration that is by standard turned off.[2] There is no certificate caching and NO AUTHENTICATION performed.
- ^ Konqueror has full Gopher support when the kgopher KIO plugin is installed.
- ^ Mosaic reached only HTTP 0.9 compliance, and does not support secure communications in any way.
- ^ a b c For security reasons, IDN domains are displayed as punycode if they contain certain characters or if the top level domain has not been whitelisted [3].
- ^ NNTP support can be added by installing the add-on infoRSS.
- ^ IRC support can be added by installing ChatZilla.
- ^ Firefox support for the Gopher protocol will be dropped in Firefox 4 (Gecko 1.9.3) per bug 388195.
- ^ Using third party extension FireTorrent [4]
Image format support
Information about what image formats the browsers support. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality.
Browser | JPEG | JPEG 2000 | GIF | PNG | APNG | MNG | TIFF [note 1] | SVG [note 2] | PDF [note 3] | 2D Canvas | XBM | BMP |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Amaya | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Partial | No | No | ? | ? |
AOL Explorer | Partial [note 4] | No | Yes | Partial [note 5] | No | No | disable | No | No | No [note 6] | No [note 7] | ? |
Avant | Partial [note 4] | No | Yes | Partial [note 5] | No | No | disable | No | No | No [note 6] | No [note 7] | ? |
Camino | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Partial [note 8] | No | No | Yes | ? |
Dillo | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
DocZilla | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | ? | Yes | Partial | No | ? | Yes | ? |
ELinks | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
Epiphany | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Partial [note 8] [note 9] | No [note 10] | Yes [note 9] | Yes | ? |
Galeon | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | ? |
K-Meleon | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? |
Konqueror | Yes | Yes [note 11] | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Partial [note 12] | Yes [note 13] | No | ? | Yes |
Links | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | ? |
Lynx | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Midori | Yes | Yes [note 14] | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Partial [note 15] | No | Yes | Yes | ? |
Mozilla | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Dropped [note 16] | No | No | No | No | Yes | ? |
Mozilla Firefox | Yes | No[15] | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 17] | No[16] | No[17] | Partial [note 8] | No [note 10] | Yes | Dropped [note 18] | Yes |
NetSurf | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Partial | No | No | No | ? |
OmniWeb | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Partial | No | No | Yes | ? |
Opera | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Partial [note 19] | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Safari | Yes | Yes [note 14] | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Partial [note 15] | Yes (Mac only) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SeaMonkey | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes [note 17] | No | No | Partial [note 8] | No [note 10] | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Shiira | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Partial | No | Partial | Yes | ? |
Sleipnir | Partial [note 4] | No | Yes | Partial [note 5] | No | No | disable | No | No | No [note 6] | No [note 7] | ? |
WorldWideWeb | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? |
w3m | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | ? |
Browser | JPEG | JPEG 2000 | GIF | PNG | APNG | MNG | TIFF [note 1] | SVG [note 2] | PDF [note 3] | 2D Canvas | XBM | BMP |
- ^ a b Most browsers support TIFF by using a plugin installed by the user.
- ^ a b SVG here refers to SVG 1.1 Full. There are also two simplified profiles known as SVG 1.1 Tiny and SVG 1.1 Basic, which are intended for user agents with limited capabilities.
- ^ a b Most browsers support PDF by installing an Adobe plugin which takes over the browser window. Listed here are browsers which also support inline PDFs within other hypertext documents (such as within HTML's <img/> tag). Note that PDF (in strictly speaking) is not an image format, but a scriptable rich text document format that can contain different types of multimedia content, including vector and bitmap graphics, audio, video, forms, intra- and inter-document hypertext links and a hierarchical contents listing. The format is also the native display format under Mac OS X.
- ^ a b c Internet Explorer does not support progressive display of progressive JPEG[citation needed].
- ^ a b c Internet Explorer supports PNG images but is unable to correctly display images with gamma correction or color correction[citation needed]. Versions of Internet Explorer prior to version 7 are unable to correctly display images with alpha channel (for transparency) without additional coding [5].
- ^ a b c Support for the canvas element was added to Internet Explorer 9. Earlier versions of Internet Explorer can be made to emulate canvas using the excanvas script.
- ^ a b c Internet Explorer support for XBM files was removed in Version 6.
- ^ a b c d Firefox and SeaMonkey partially support SVG 1.1 Full. Modules that are implemented or not implemented and details of their implementation: [6].
- ^ a b Support for these features depends on the version of the Gecko rendering engine that Epiphany was built with.
- ^ a b c With the addition of the new Cairo version in Gecko 1.9 it will be natively possible to save pages to PDFs but not read them. This feature is not included in Firefox 3.5, however it is possible with the new Cairo backend.
- ^ Konqueror supports JPEG2000 if KDE's viewer is compiled with Jasper library.
- ^ KDE has developed its own SVG plugin for Konqueror, known as KSVG [7]. KSVG1 development has ended, but work on the next-generation KDOM-based KSVG2 has been very active [8]. KSVG2 is slated to be moved into the core KDE [9] meaning at some point KSVG2 should become part of Konqueror.
- ^ Inline PDF viewing in Konqueror requires KPDF which is included in kdegraphics.
- ^ a b Safari supports JPEG2000 through QuickTime plugin, which is an optional software bundle for Safari installation on Windows, and an integrated component in Mac OS.
- ^ a b Safari 3 is able to render SVG documents, but not fully [10].
- ^ Support of MNG/JNG was dropped since 6 June 2003 [11] [12]. There are unofficial obsolete builds with MNG/JNG called Mngzilla [13].
- ^ a b Mozilla applications rebranded by the Debian project, such as GNU IceCat or Iceape do not support APNG.
- ^ In Gecko 1.9.2 (Firefox 3.6) XBM support was dropped.
- ^ Opera supports SVG 1.1 Basic. [14]
See also
- List of web browsers
- Comparison of layout engines
- Comparison of layout engines (XML)
- Comparison of layout engines (XHTML)
- Comparison of layout engines (graphics)
- Comparison of layout engines (CSS)
- Comparison of layout engines (DOM)
- Comparison of layout engines (HTML5)
- Comparison of layout engines (ECMAScript)
- Comparison of layout engines (SVG)
Footnotes
- ^ Default Engine: Webkit, Lunascape ver.6.1.4.
- ^ Niels, Leenheer (8 June 2010). "THE HTML5 TEST – HOW WELL DOES YOUR BROWSER SUPPORT HTML5?". Retrieved 19 February 2011.
- ^ "Results of HTML5 test for browsers". Retrieved 22 June 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g Depends on the layout engine which is chosen: Trident or Gecko or WebKit.
- ^ "SMIL in HTML". w3schools. Retrieved 23 January 2010.
- ^ "For Immediate Release: OmniWeb 5.9.2 now includes Gopher support!". OmniGroup. 1 April 2009. Retrieved 3 April 2009.
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- ^ "Windows Internet Explorer 8 Expert Zone Chat (August 14, 2008)". Microsoft. 14 August 2008. Retrieved 27 March 2009.
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