Modernizr.boxshadow returns true on webOS though box-shadow is not supported.

[typeoneerror]

Not sure if this is a bug or not, but I'm testing for box-shadow support on the webOS emulator, and it returns true, though box-shadow is not supported:

if (Modernizr.boxshadow)
{
    alert("box shadow is supported");
}

[paulirish]

well that sucks. :(

[paulirish]

typeonerror, if you had some time to see if there is another detect that works on webos that'd be great.

but this probably means

elem.style.webkitBoxShadow === '' // true
'webkitBoxShadow' in elem.style // true

i wonder if setting the value and seeing if it comes back correctly will work.. (probably)

[typeoneerror]

typeonerror, if you had some time to see if there is another detect
that works on webos that'd be great.

This detect works as expected (alerts):

if (Modernizr.borderradius)
{
    alert("works");
}

Not sure if that's what you mean. I'm working with webOS emulator all week so let me know if there's anything you want to test explicitly. To note, this alerts "false" on webOS, so perhaps they have an incomplete implementation of box-shadow. It says it's not supported, and definitely doesn't work when applied via CSS:

alert(document.getElementById("test").style.webkitBoxShadow === undefined);

[typeoneerror]

This also does not work:

document.getElementById("test").style.webkitBoxShadow = "5px 5px 5px #000";

[KuraFire]

By "does not work", what do you mean?

What we would like to know is a way wherein the test sets a box shadow, returns false on webOS emulator, but still returns true in e.g. Safari or Chrome.

[typeoneerror]

@KuraFire box shadow is not supported on webOS as far as I can tell. So setting it does nothing visually. But Modernizr reports that it is available. It seems to me more like a webOS bug than Modernizr.

[paulirish]

webos false positives on the boxshadow test. closed by b5790ae