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Webshims Lib is a modular capability-based polyfill-loading library
Filed under application tools › utilitiesShow AllImportant note: Webshim is not compatible with upcoming jQuery 3.x and I do not plan to work on a new major version. I will still fix critical bugs in the future though.
Webshim
The polyfilling, capability based loading JavaScript Library
General Principles
- 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
Features
- 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
- matchMedia
- interactive elements: summary/details
- XHR2 / filereader (including, XHR2/AJAX CORS and FormData handling)
- picture / img[srcset]
- promise
- geolocation
- ECMAScript 5 / JavaScript 1.8.5 features
- window.URL
- getUserMedia ('usermedia' currently only access to user's camera, not microphone)
- sticky (position: sticky)
Installation and Usage
1 - Download the Webshim Lib and put the
js-webshim
folder in your project.2 - Include the JavaScript:
<script src="js/jquery.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('forms es5'); </script>
3 - Wait till everything has been loaded and then use it:
<script> $(function(){ // work with the HTML5 API $('input:invalid').each(function(){ $(this).after( $.prop(this, 'validationMessage') ); }); // ... }); </script>
Download via bower
bower install webshim --save-dev
License
The Webshims Lib core is licensed under the MIT-License.
Webshims Lib uses many great third party scripts:
Script License URL flashcanvas MIT http://code.google.com/p/flashcanvas flashcanvaspro closed http://flashcanvas.net Jaris FLV GPL 3.0 http://jarisflvplayer.org excanvas Apache License 2.0 http://excanvas.sourceforge.net moxie GPL 3.0 https://github.com/moxiecode/moxie es5 MIT https://github.com/280north/narwhal swfmini MIT https://code.google.com/p/swfobject track BSD 2 clause https://github.com/cgiffard/Captionator color-picker MIT http://johndyer.name/post/2007/09/PhotoShop-like-JavaScript-Color-Picker.aspx forms-picker MIT https://github.com/brandonaaron/jquery-mousewheel jme.woff GPL / CC BY 3.0 http://icomoon.io/#preview-free picture MIT https://github.com/scottjehl/picturefill url any (OSI approved) Open Source licence https://github.com/inexorabletash/polyfill Questions?
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them on stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/webshim.
Please tag your questions with 'webshim'.