Web Standards: What's the best reference for historical browser support/element compatibility of HTML specifications?
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Specifically, I'm looking for browser versions that first gave basic support to HTML elements, in IE, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, and Safari. The Mozilla Developer Network is a good resource; however, basic browser support of many elements in this resource are listed as 'yes' instead of the first known compatible browser versions. Example: The bottom 'Browser compatibility' table of https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/b. Other resources conflict on first supporting browser versions for various elements, and, don't list references either. Example: Blooberry.com, an ancient (!) and popular resource, http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/tagpages/b/bold.htm as being first supported by IE in version 1. Aptana.com, however, http://www.aptana.com/reference/html/api/CSS.element.Bold.html.
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Answer:
Depending on the time you have to dedicate to the project, you could glean much of this data by running a test suite through archived browsers: http://browsers.evolt.org/
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