browser-statuses

Web browser implementation statuses

This repository contains implementation support information of Web technologies on main desktop and mobile Web browsers, assembled from data gleaned from external open source platform status projects:

• Can I Use
• Chrome Platform Status
• MDN's Browser Compatilibity Data
• Webkit Feature Status

This Web technologies included in the final list are those for which there exists some implementation information. The list is expected to grow over time. It should roughly contain specifications in browser-specs, in other words those published by W3C Working Groups, as well as standards and proposals developed or incubated in W3C Community Groups, the WHATWG, or the Khronos Group.

Table of Contents

• Installation and usage
• List of Web browsers
• Spec series object
  • shortname
  • support
  • features
    • Feature url
    • Feature title
    • Feature support
  • polyfills
    • Polyfill url
    • Polyfill label
• Implementation info object
  • ua
  • status
  • source
  • flag
  • guess
  • partial
  • prefix
  • selected
  • details
    • href
    • representative
    • notes
• How to add/update/delete implementation info
• Versioning
• Development notes
  • How to generate index.json manually
  • Tests
• Attributions

Installation and usage

The data is distributed as an NPM package. To incorporate it to your project, run:

npm install browser-statuses

You can then retrieve the list from your Node.js program:

const impldata = require("browser-statuses");
console.log(JSON.stringify(impldata, null, 2));

Alternatively, you can either retrieve the latest release or fetch index.json.

Note: If you choose to fetch the index.json file directly, keep in mind that it may contain (possibly incorrect) updates that have not yet been included in the NPM package and the latest GitHub release.

List of Web browsers

The implementation info is available for the following browsers:

identifier	name	type
baidu_android	Baidu Browser	mobile
chrome	Google Chrome	desktop
chrome_android	Google Chrome	mobile
edge	Microsoft Edge, based on Chromium	desktop
firefox	Mozilla Firefox	desktop
firefox_android	Mozilla Firefox	mobile
opera	Opera	desktop
qq_android	QQ Browser	mobile
safari	Apple Safari	desktop
safari_ios	Apple Safari for iOS	mobile
samsunginternet_android	Samsung Internet	mobile
uc_android	UC Browser	mobile
webkit	Webkit	engine

Spec series object

Each entry in the list describes the implementation status of a specification series, and/or of some of the features it defines, on main desktop and mobile Web browsers. Each entry has the following overall structure:

{
  "shortname": "series shortname",
  "support": [
    {
      "ua": "user agent identifier",
      "status": "implementation status",
      "source": "platform status project that gave birth to this info",
      "details": [
        {
          "status": "implementation status",
          "flag": true,
          "notes": ["Possible implementation notes"],
          "href": "URL to the corresponding platform status project page"
        },
        "other implementation status pages considered to compute overall status"
      ],
      "selected": true
    }
  ],
  "features": {
    "feature name": {
      "url": "URL of the section that defines the feature in the spec",
      "title": "Human readable description of the feature",
      "support": ["same construct as main one"]
    }
  },
  "polyfills": [
    {
      "url": "URL of a polyfill library",
      "label": "Name of the polyfill library"
    }
  ]
}

In many cases, the features level will not exist, and implementation support information will only exist at the series level. Here is a simple example (support info truncated to keep number of lines minimal):

{
  "shortname": "beacon",
  "support": [
    {
      "ua": "chrome",
      "status": "shipped",
      "source": "bcd",
      "details": [
        {
          "status": "shipped",
          "notes": [
            "Starting in Chrome 59, this method cannot send a <code>Blob</code> whose type is not CORS safelisted. This is a temporary change until a mitigation can be found for the security issues that this creates. For more information see <a href='https://crbug.com/720283'>Chrome bug 720283</a>."
          ],
          "href": "https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/API/Navigator/sendBeacon",
          "representative": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "ua": "chrome",
      "status": "shipped",
      "source": "chrome",
      "details": [
        {
          "status": "shipped",
          "href": "https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5517433905348608",
          "representative": true
        }
      ],
      "selected": true
    },
    {
      "ua": "firefox",
      "status": "shipped",
      "source": "bcd",
      "details": [
        {
          "status": "shipped",
          "href": "https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/API/Navigator/sendBeacon",
          "representative": true
        }
      ],
      "selected": true
    },
    {
      "ua": "firefox",
      "status": "shipped",
      "source": "caniuse",
      "details": [
        {
          "status": "shipped",
          "href": "https://caniuse.com/#feat=beacon",
          "representative": true
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

shortname

A shortname that uniquely identifies the spec series. In most cases, the series shortname is the shortname of an individual spec in the series without the level or version number. For instance, the series' shortname for css-color-5 is css-color. When a specification is not versioned, the series' shortname is identical to the spec's shortname.

All spec series described in this project must exist in browser-specs. In other words, the value of the shortname property must match the value of a series.shortname property in the index.json file of browser-specs.

The shortname property is always set.

support

The list of implementation support information for the specification series. Each item in the list is an Implementation info object that describes the implementation support in a given browser.

There may be more than one implementation support information in the list for the same browser, as information may come from different sources. The most authoritative source will be flagged with a selected property set to true.

The support property is usually set, but there may exist a few specs in the list for which there is no implementation support information, and that still appear in the list, e.g. because there are known polyfills.

features

A list of specific features defined in the specification, indexed by some unique feature identifier.

Feature url

A pointer to the definition of the feature in the latest Editor's Draft of the specification.

The URL must be an absolute URL.

The url property should be set whenever possible. It may not be set in cases where the feature describes a generic concept (e.g. "support in workers").

Feature title

A short human-readable English title for the feature.

Feature support

The list of implementation support information for the feature. Each item in the list is an Implementation info object that describes the implementation support in a given browser. See also support.

polyfills

A list of known polyfills for the specification. Each polyfill has the following properties.

Polyfill url

The URL to the web site that describes the polyfill.

The url property is always set.

Polyfill label

The name of the polyfill.

The label property is always set.

Implementation info object

All items in support properties describe the implementation status of the underlying specification or feature in a given browser, collected from one of the external platform status projects.

The structure and possible properties that may appear in an implementation info object are illustrated by the following example:

{
  "ua": "safari",
  "status": "experimental",
  "source": "caniuse",
  "guess": true,
  "flag": true,
  "partial": true,
  "selected": true,
  "details": ["support info details"]
}

ua

An identifier for the browser, see List of web browsers.

The ua property is always set.

status

The implementation status for the spec or feature. Value may be one of:

• "shipped": spec or feature is supported
• "experimental": support for the spec or feature is available but not final
• "indevelopment": implementation of the spec or feature is ongoing
• "consideration": support for the spec or feature is under consideration but not under active developement.
• "notsupported": spec or feature is not supported in the browser.
• "" (only when implementation info was entered manually): implementation status reported by platform status projects is incorrect. Actual implementation status is unknown.

The status property is always set.

source

The provenance for the implementation status information. Can be one of:

• bcd: MDN's Browser Compatilibity Data project
• caniuse: Can I Use
• chrome: Chrome Platform Status
• webkit: Webkit Feature Status
• feedback: Specific feedback received
• other: Heard through the grapevine

The last two types of information are maintained manually in this repository. They should only be used as last resort when information from other sources is invalid or inexistant for some reason.

The source property is always set.

flag

A boolean flag set to true when the spec or feature is available behind a flag and needs to be manually enabled by the user before it may be used.

The flag property is only set when it is truthy.

guess

A boolean flag that may only appear at the spec series level, set to true when the implementation info was derived from support for individual features that the specification defines.

When the flag is true, the features property gives the list of feature identifiers that were used to derive the overall implementation status.

The guess property is only set when it is truthy.

partial

A boolean flag set to true when implementation of the spec or feature is known to be incomplete.

The partial property is only set when it is truthy.

prefix

A boolean flag set to true when the implementation of the spec or feature requires a prefix (e.g. webkitXXX), as is typically the case as long as an API is not final.

The prefix property is only set when it is truthy.

selected

A boolean flag set to true when the implementation information is the best one in the list for the browser, typically because it originates from the most authoritative source for the browser (Chrome Platform Status for Chrome, Webkit status for Safari).

The selected property is only set when it is truthy. For each browser that appears in a support list, there will always be one and only one implementation info object with a selected flag set to true.

details

The implementation status at the spec series or feature level is often computed by looking at a set of platform status entries. The details property is an array that lists the implementation status for each of them.

Note: to keep the index.json file to a reasonable size, this array currently only contains implementation details for entries that are representative.

Each item in the array looks like the following example:

{
  "status": "shipped",
  "href": "https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/6488656873259008",
  "representative": true
}

Some of the properties that may appear in details items are the same as those in support: status, flag, partial, prefix.

Additional properties are described below.

href

The absolute URL of the page that describes the spec or feature in the platform status project that is at the source of the info.

The href property is always set. It uniquely identifies the related entry in the platform status project.

representative

A boolean flag set that indicates whether the related entry in the platform status project is considered to be representative of the implementation of the underlying spec or feature. There may be more than one representative entry for a given spec or feature.

When there are entries for which the representative flag is set, only these entries are taken into account to compute the final implementation status of the underlying spec or feature, even though the implementation status of non representative entries still appears in the details array.

In the absence of entries for which the representative flag is set, the final implementation status takes the individual implementation status of all (non representative) entries into account, and the resulting status is considered to be a guess (see the guess flag).

The representative flag is only set when it is truthy.

notes

A list of implementation notes, collected from the implementation info source.

The notes property is only set when needed.

How to add/update/delete implementation info

If you believe that a spec or a feature should be added, modified, or removed from the list, or if you would like to otherwise contribute to this project, please check the contributing instructions.

Versioning

This project adheres to Semantic Versioning with the following increment rules given a major.minor.patch version:

• major: A property disappeared, its meaning has changed, or some other incompatible API change was made. When the major number gets incremented, code that parses the list likely needs to be updated.
• minor: A new property was added, the list of spec changed (a new spec was added, or a spec was removed). Code that parses the list should continue to work undisturbed, but please note that there is no guarantee that a spec that was present in the previous version will continue to appear in the new version.
• patch: Implementation info about one or more specs changed. Minor updates were made to the code that don't affect the list.

Development notes

How to generate index.json manually

To re-generate the index.json file locally, run:

npm run build

Tests

To run all tests:

npm test

Tests are run automatically on pull requests.

Attributions

Implementation support information gets assembled from the following external open source platform status projects:

• Can I Use was built and is maintained by Alexis Deveria. Data is published under the CC BY 4.0 license.
• MDN's Browser Compatilibity Data is published under the CC0 license.
• The Chrome Platform Status Web site and material are published under the Apache License 2.0.
• Data from the Webkit Feature Status is licensed under the BSD License.

The code that generates and validates the index.json file makes use of a number of open source libraries, listed as dev dependencies in package.json. Kudos to everyone involved in these projects! 🙏