Best browser for HTML5 CSS3 in the medium term?

Question

If you had to choose a browser (only one) to be the main support browser for a company jumping into HTML5 (CSS3). Which one would be your safest medium-term bet?

Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE?

I am looking for an objective recommendation based on standards / compatible developer tools, fast and correct function implementations, memory size, etc.

UserBase / MarketShare will not be a problem, because it will be in a closed environment in which we control customers (which are mainly large machines with a web interface).

Thanks!

Answer 1

Opera has always been the leader, but they also always had strange bugs. Now Chrome is in an interesting position: Google just bought an Internet Protocol company (On2), and so they have the opportunity to end the battle of H.264 against Ogg Theora by releasing this wonderful new codec, which they bought as open source.

HTML5 itself is not new: it’s just new elements that display differently. Think of it this way: if HTML5 was the first to introduce the <blink> , developers will doubt it a bit, because you can just use CSS to set text-decoration:blink or use some Javascript to make it blink.

This is not the case with HTML5. Most of the new elements are just extensions of the <div> . For those that are not ( <video> , <audio> , <canvas> , etc.), there are either already strong implementations (almost everything in all directions), or implementations that are complete, like the HTML5 specification.

Will there be a better browser for HTML5? Probably no. It's all about how browsers position themselves (as I mentioned in Chrome above).

Answer 2

I would say a web page based browser. This will be the best balance of speed / stability and features of HTML5 / CSS3.

However, I believe that Opera has the most implemented features.

Answer 3

If you control the environment, I would say that select it based on what features your application can use to simplify your work. Otherwise, a lower common denominator is a widely used approach for a small team.

Answer 4

I would say Gecko (firefox and friends) or webkit (safari, chrome and friends). I would not go with IE or Opera. Here is an HTML5 / CSS3 comparison table that pretty much supports my views.

Answer 5

Safaris clicks on CSS animations and transitions if they're important to you.

Answer 6

If you want to create an HTML5 application / site that focuses on a single browser, you can also use HTML 4 and JavaScript. Over the next many years, most HTML5 sites will need to run in a mode other than HTML5. See HTML5 Functions as a Cake Overlay to add benefits to browsers that can take advantage of it.

Answer 7

All modern versions of the browser support HTML 5. But the recently launched Internet Explorer 9 is specifically designed to meet the future needs of web technologies and includes the latest features that provide a rich and interactive web experience. The latest Internet Explorer 9 has more cascading style sheet support than previous versions of Microsoft. It supports CSS3 and newer SVG2 markup standards. IE 9 includes a new java engine script that is designed to use a multi-core processor and provides maximum performance.