Supported web standards and technologies

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Standard	Status	Specification
HTML 5
Parsing	Partially supported	www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#parsing
Canvas and Canvas 2D API	Supported	www.w3.org/TR/html5/the-canvas-element.html
Semantic structure	Supported	www.w3.org/TR/html5/sections.html#the-section-element
Forms	Partially supported	www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html
Embedded media	Partially supported	www.w3.org/TR/html5/audio.html
Offline web applications	Supported	www.w3.org/TR/offline-webapps/
Geolocation API	Supported	www.w3.org/TR/geolocation-API/
SQL Database API	Supported (when a microSD card is mounted on the device)	www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/
Web storage	Supported (when a microSD card is mounted on the device)	www.w3.org/TR/webstorage/
Web Workers API	Supported	www.w3.org/TR/workers/
Timers API	Supported	www.w3.org/TR/html5/webappapis.html#timers
HTML 4.01
HTML 4.01	Supported	www.w3.org/TR/html401/
XHTML
XHTML 1.1	Supported	www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/
XHTML Basic 1.1	Supported	www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/
XHTML Mobile Profile	Supported	www.openmobilealliance.org/
WML
WML1.3	Supported	www.openmobilealliance.org/

Standard	Status	Specification
CSS 3
CSS 3	Partially supported	www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work
CSS 2.1
CSS 2.1	Supported	http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/
CSS Mobile Profile
CSS Mobile Profile 2.0	Supported	www.w3.org/TR/css-mobile/

Standard	Status	Specification
ECMAScript™
ECMAScript 3	Supported	www.ecma-international.org/
JavaScript®
JavaScript 1.8	Partially supported	developer.mozilla.org/
JavaScript 1.6	Supported	developer.mozilla.org/
JavaScript 1.5	Supported	developer.mozilla.org/
JavaScript 1.4	Supported	developer.mozilla.org/
JavaScript 1.3	Supported	developer.mozilla.org/
DOM
DOM Level 3 Events	Partially supported	www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/
DOM Level 2 Core	Supported	www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/
DOM Level 2 Events	Supported	www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Events/
DOM Level 2 HTML	Supported	www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-HTML/
DOM Level 2 Style	Supported	www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Style/
DOM Level 2 Traversal and Range	Supported	www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Traversal- Range/
AJAX
XMLHttpRequest	Supported	www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/

Standard	Status	Specification
XML
XML 1.0/1.1	Supported	www.w3.org/TR/xml11/
XSLT 1.0	Supported	www.w3.org/TR/xslt
XPath 1.0	Supported	www.w3.org/TR/xpath/
SVG
SVG 1.1	Partially supported	www.w3.org/TR/SVG/
SVG Tiny™ 1.2	Partially supported	www.w3.org/TR/SVGTiny12/
SVG Tiny 1.1	Partially supported	www.w3.org/TR/SVGMobile/
Web syndication
RSS 2.0	Partially supported	www.rssboard.org/rss-specification
RSS 0.9	Partially supported	www.rssboard.org/rss-0-9-0
Atom™	Partially supported	tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4287

Standard	Status	Description
BlackBerry® extensions
`window.blackberry`	Supported	Provides information about the network on which the BlackBerry device is running.
`blackberry.launch`	Supported	Provides methods that let you access core and add-on BlackBerry applications through JavaScript®.

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