David Collingwood

Great post! Technology, especially web technology is one of those subjects that are constantly evolving, and universities are struggling to keep up. By the time a course gets approved it's already out of date. I am studying at the moment and for one course we weren't allowed to use HTML5 or CSS3...I'm sure it comes as no surprise that I haven't been taught anything from your list. I've had to learn all of that in my own time.

Nice idea! I also wanted to combat this same issue and wrote my own protip on the subject: https://coderwall.com/p/qrbasw

Wow, I didn't realise that some of these functions were built-in! I just had a quick look and support seems really good except IE 8, but using modernizr would make it pretty easy to work around that.