The polyfilling, capability based loading JavaScript Library
- HTML5 compliant: correctly and accurately implemented (HTML5) Markup-, JS- and DOM-APIs
- capability based loading: extremely lightweight in modern browsers
- cross-browser support: All A-Graded browsers including latest version of Opera are tested
- extendable: if we have not implemented a feature you want, you can easily implement it on your own
- HTML5 shiv and innerShiv solution including basic CSS-support
- canvas
- HTML5 form features including: constraint validation and form widgets (input[type="range"], input[type="date"], input[type="number"], input[type="time"], input[type="month"], output, progress, input[list]/datalist)
- HTML5 audio/video/track implementation
- interactive elements: summary/details
- JSON (stringify and parse)
- localStorage/sessionStorage
- geolocation
- ECMAScript 5 / JavaScript 1.8.5 features
1 - Download the Webshim Lib and put the js-webshim-folder in your project.
2 - Include the JavaScript:
<script src="js/jquery.js"></script>
<!-- Simple change -->
<script src="js-webshim/minified/extras/modernizr-custom.js"></script>
<!-- 'Use your own' variant -->
<script src="js/Modernizr-custom.js"></script>
<script src="js-webshim/minified/polyfiller.js"></script>
<script>
// load and implement all unsupported features
$.webshims.polyfill();
// or only load a specific feature
//$.webshims.polyfill('geolocation json-storage');
</script>3 - Wait till everything has been loaded and then use it:
<script>
$(function(){
// work with JSON and localStorage
var userData = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('userData')) || {visits: 0};
$('#visits').html(userData.visits);
// ...
});
</script>The Webshims Lib core is licensed under the MIT-License.
Webshims Lib uses many great third party scripts.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them on stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/webshim.
Please tag your questions with 'webshim'.