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By James Lu

Periodic Table of Web Browsers APIs/Technologies with tutorial links

A visually organized list of all the ways a web app can ask your web browser to do things

Key

Supported by all browsers including IE11

Supported by all browsers

Supported by two modern browsers

Implementation is in progress

Being discussed or proposed

Partial support

No support

Supported only by Google Chrome

Implementation in progress in Google Chrome

Proprietary

Other

Markup

Xhtml: EXTensible HyperText Markup Language

Ht: HyperText Markup Language 5 documents

Svg: SVG1.1 vector graphics and document layout

Ma: MathML3.0

Vxml: VoiceXML

SvgN: SVG Native

Ma4: MathML4

Svg2: SVG2

Offline

Hc: HTTP Cache-Control, ETag

Ni: Network information (wifi, cellular)

Sw: Service Workers

Pwa: Add to home screen

Pu: Push API

Bgs: Background Sync

Pbgs: Periodic Background Sync

Ac: Application Cache

Ge: Gears

Image

Gif: Graphics Interchange Format

Png: Portable Network Graphics

Jpg: Joint Photographic Experts Group

P: WebP

Av: AVIF

Style

Css: CSS

Lt: XSLT

Fx: CSS Flexbox

Gr: CSS Grid

Css4: Selectors Level 4, Lists and Counters Level 3

Ho: CSS Houdini

Persistence

Co: Cookies

Ls: LocalStorage

Idb: IndexedDB

Pe: Persistent storage

Fs: FileSystem API

Sql: WebSQL

Interactive / Dynamic
Scripts

Js: JavaScript

Es: => WeakMap Proxy import class async ...

Wa: WASM

Nx: ES.Next Intl WeakRef Atomics ?? ||=

Co: Concurrent JS

Jx: XML in JS (E4X)

Pn: PNaCL

Network API

Xhr: XMLHTTPRequest

Sse: Server-Sent Events

Ws: WebSocket

Fe: Fetch: Modernized Xhr

Bc: Beacon API

Rtc: WebRTC

T: WebTransport

Social

Smtp: Email

Rss: RSS

Mn: WebMention

As: ActivityStreams 2.0

Sb: WebSub

Ap: ActivityPub

Fb: Facebook

Semantic & Metadata

Hd: Last-Modified, Content-Language

Mt: <meta/> name, keywords, description, http-equiv

Mc: Microdata

Owl: RDF and OWL; Solid

Authentication

Ba: Basic Authentication

Oa: OAuth

Au: Web Authentication

Graphics API

Fl: Flash (now Animate; exports to Svg, C2D, Gl)

C2D: Canvas2D

Gl: WebGL

Gl2: WebGL2

Xr: WebXR Augmented and Virtual Reality

Gpu: WebGPU

Vr: WebVR

Sensors

Geo: Geolocation API

Am: Accelerometer

Gy: Gyroscope

Mg: Magnetometer

Ot: Orientation

Al: Ambient Light

Hardware

Usb: WebUSB

Gp: Gamepad

Midi: Web MIDI

Bt: Web Bluetooth

Nfc: Web NFC

Sr: Web Serial API

Operating System

No: Notifications API

Cp: Clipboard

Fu: Fulllsreen API

Sc: Screen Capture API

Bd: Badging API