Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!
Modernizr vs Google Code Prettify: What are the differences?
What is Modernizr? Respond to your user’s browser features. It’s a collection of superfast tests or detects as we like to call them which run as your web page loads, then you can use the results to tailor the experience to the user. It tells you what HTML, CSS and JavaScript features the user’s browser has to offer.
What is Google Code Prettify? An embeddable script that makes source-code snippets in HTML prettier. It is an embeddable script that makes source-code snippets in HTML prettier.It works on HTML pages. It is widely used with good cross-browser support.
Modernizr can be classified as a tool in the "JavaScript Compilers" category, while Google Code Prettify is grouped under "Javascript Utilities & Libraries".
Some of the features offered by Modernizr are:
- Easy to deliver tiered experiences
- Make use of the latest and greatest features in browsers
- Without leaving less fortunate users high and dry.
On the other hand, Google Code Prettify provides the following key features:
- Lightweights: small download and does not block page from loading while running
- Customizable styles via CSS
- Supports all C-like, Bash-like, and XML-like languages. No need to specify the language
Modernizr and Google Code Prettify are both open source tools. Modernizr with 23.9K GitHub stars and 3.04K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Google Code Prettify with 4.93K GitHub stars and 821 GitHub forks.
