platform support list

[Jimmysh]

This repo is so cool. I really like it. I want use it in my projects. Can you provide a list of browser support?

[vladmandic]

Good question - here are my notes before I write docs with platform support details:

Browser

Desktop:

• Chrome: Supported
  • Minimum version Chrome 60 from 2017
  • WASM: For performance reasons it is recommended to enable WebAssembly SIMD support in chrome://flags
• Firefox: Supported
  • Minimum version Firefox 55 from 2017
  • WebGL: Lower performance due to Firefox handing of WebGL memory garbage collection
  • WASM: For performance reasons it is recommended to enable javascript.options.wasm.simd in about:config
  • WASM: Due to missing threaded WASM support in Firefox, async operations are not supported (running multiple detections or models in parallel)
  • Web Workers: Not supported due to Firefox missing implementation for OffscreenCanvas
• Safari: Limited support
  • Minimum version Safari 10.3
  • User reported as working but with limited testing
  • WebGL: Safari supports only WebGL1 but that is transparent to users
• Other Chromium based browsers: Supported
  • Edge is included in testing and supported with same notes as Chrome
  • Other Chromium browsers are presumed as working
• IE 11 or older: Not supported
  • Human requires ES2018 support in browsers

Mobile:

• Chrome: Supported
• Firefox: Supported
• Safari: Limited support
  • User reported as working but with limited testing
• Other Chromium based browsers: Supported
  • Edge is included in testing and supported with same notes as Chrome
• IE 11 or older: Not supported
  • Human requires ES2018 support in browsers

NodeJS

• Minimum version 14.0 which is current LTS version
• Support could be extended to 12.0 if required
• WIP: Face models are not supported in NodeJS as TensorFlow/JS for Node (tfjs-node) does not implement required function

[Jimmysh]

Thank you very much, this information is very useful to me!

[vladmandic]

i'll close the issue but leave it pinned as it's useful info for other users.