Caniuse Alternatives

caniuse reviews and mentions

• WebP: The WebPage Compression Format
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Sep 2024

  There is an interesting "Save-Data" header to let a site know which makes sense to optimize for on connection but it seems to be Chrome only so far https://caniuse.com/?search=save-data

  I wish there was a bit of an opposite option - a "don't lazy/partially load anything" for those of us on fiber watching images pop up as we scroll past them in the page that's been open for a minute.

• How I Built Huddle Landing Page with Curved Sections
  2 projects | dev.to | 5 Sep 2024

  After completing the front-end design, I started testing the site using tools like CanIuse and Google Lighthouse. I focused on four key areas: Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO. For accessibility, I made sure to check the contrast ratio and ensure all images had proper alt attributes. For performance, my goal was to optimize load times, while best practices were implemented using the BEM methodology for clean, maintainable HTML. To improve SEO, I included essential meta tags and followed best practices to help the page rank well. On the optimization side, I reduced the intrinsic size of images so that web document size was reduced from 2MB down to just 8KB — to ensure they load quickly and efficiently.

• iPhone 16 could let you shoot in JPEG-XL
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Aug 2024

  Section in the article: “The iPhone 16 family could let you shoot in JPEG-XL”

  I’m with you. No normal person is waiting for this. Are any techies? Like maybe 2?

  The article says the JPEG would be a third the size they are now. OK. That’s nice.

  But only 12.5% of Internet users can seem ‘em. All of ‘em Apple users.

  https://caniuse.com/?search=jpeg-xl

  So what’s the point? Just use HEIC. It’s supported by the exact same browsers.

  This seems like a really sketchy rumor to me.

• 10 Game-Changing Web Development Tools to Supercharge Your Workflow in 2024
  3 projects | dev.to | 16 Aug 2024

  Can I Use

• Show HN: Plain Vanilla – a tutorial website for vanilla web development
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Aug 2024

  Nice work, I haven't tried web components but support is better than I expected per caniuse[0]. This weirdly reminded me of a time 12 years ago[1] when I was encouraged to avoid using the term "vanilla" as it sounds like another framework

  [0] https://caniuse.com/?search=web%20components

• Things you should try to do with HTML/CSS instead of Going with an entire Javascript implementation : The rule of least power!
  1 project | dev.to | 30 Jul 2024

  While some functionality can be achieved with pure HTML and CSS, browser support is still an issue. The best way to know if you are not screwing up the majority of your users is to check browser compatibility before using the element. You can use the caniuse website to quickly check browser support for a given html element, css property, or even more: browser APIs.

• Show HN: I made a drag and drop CSS grid generator
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jul 2024

  Thanks all, your responses have been incredibly helpful.

  In summary (besides the layout-specific stuff which was great) - between the MDN documentation for learning and reference:

  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web

  And, for checking compatiblity and common practice:

  https://caniuse.com

  A n00b like me can get a decent handle on current best practice and standards for web dev. Feel levelled-up - much appreciated!

• 8 Frontend Tools to Become a Better Developer
  2 projects | dev.to | 4 Jul 2024

  Link: https://caniuse.com/

• Welcome to Ladybird, a independent web browser
  10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jul 2024

  There’s websites decided to pointing out which standards various browsers do & don’t support.

  https://caniuse.com/

  (And older not as relevant one is http://acid3.acidtests.org/ )

• Why Copilots and chatbots are particularly bad for modern web dev
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jul 2024

  Which has broad browser compatibility[0] and 97.27% real-use support[1].

  In some ways you're skipping the library step (no `npm install`) but you're also embedding library fragments in your code via these generated answers. If there are security implications or bugs in those fragments, or they're outdated - you're unlikely to see/be notified. If you used a library you'll see updates / notifications or dependency warnings in your build pipeline (depending on your setup). Those updates aren't risk free (protest-ware, abandon-ware, malicious updates) but if it's an area you're not familiar with/don't wish to research they provide more value than solves it for now.

  [0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

  [1]: https://caniuse.com/?search=padStart

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