Can I Use?

What is 'Can I Use?'

The website, Can I Use, is intended to check a browser's compatibility with certain coding features, and whether a specific browser type has full functionality of these features, partial, or none.

4 Uses of Specific Information

Compare Browsers

On the home page there is a tab that can be clicked that allows the user to select specific browser versions and check the compatibility of certain features. This can range from HTML5 features, to Javascript, CSS, SVG Graphics, and more.

Feature Updates

They also have a page dedicated to describing new features that users can utilize on their own sites as they become available for use.

Accessibility Charts

When a certain feature is searched, a page with a large chart of colors will appear on screen, showing which browsers can support a particular feature. In addition, the site also splits up major iterations of each browser to show which versions of a particular browser are compatible with said feature.

Feature Testing

Lastly, they have feature testing software provided by BrowserStack that allows the user to emulate their site on a different device to be tested for compatibility. In addition, the user gets access to over 2,000 browsers to test on.

2 Properties

Gap

Gap is a property that creates a gap between various flex items when used on a flex-container. This property is widely available to use, however, it only made it's somewhat recent debut in late 2018 by Firefox.

Scroll-Behavior

The Scroll-behavior property determines how the website will scroll when an action prompts the page to move to a section that is currently offscreen. Smooth scrolling allows for a smooth transition between the start and end point, and no defined value would instantly place the user at the end point. This property is widely available on most browsers, however, it hasn't been around for all too long, as Firefox was the first to include it in 2015, then it took 5 more years for Edge, the next major browser to use this feature, to also share compatibility.

Summary

Overall, the site Caniuse.com is a very insightful resource when testing feature compatibility, and can help users design their site in mind based on the most popular browsers and their compatibility with certain features.