Lately, we hear more often about HTML5 and CSS3. These new Web standards promise to support audio and video, graphics and numerous technical enhancements such as drag-and-drop support, all of which aim to make Web search more enjoyable. Most of the tags used in HTML will be found in HTML5, so if you know a bit of HTML, don’t despair, because the situation is not that bad. In fact, it is going to be better, as you read in the first paragraph.
Many CSS3 and HTML5 features are currently supported by Web browsers. Well, this statement is not exactly true. No Web browser supports a perfect compatibility with HTML5. To see if your browser supports it, enter a search engine and write “browser support for HTML” or something like this. You will find many Websites that will give you the answer. The answer comes in a diagram.
HTML5 and CSS3, although not finalized, should be compatible with 8 major browsers, including: Firefox versions, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer 9. Chrome is better than Firefox at the final HTML5 tests. In 2009, IE began to lose ground against browsers such as Firefox, Safari and Chrome. StatCounter looks like IE7 has 30% of the market share, Firefox 27% and IE8 17%.
Recently, the W3C has tested five popular Web browsers to see the best compatibility. They used of course, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox 4, Opera 11.00 and Safari 5.0.2. Finally, IE9 emerged victorious.
IE has a strong support of HTML5. As HTML5 is better, we can see even from now, a new dawn for Internet Explorer.11