Compatibility Tables ("CompaTables")

Summary

This document is to define how WebPlatform produce browser compatibility support table in multiple formats; published and within WebPlatform Docs. This document describes the actual implementation status and related conversation describing its status.

It is expected that the project produce multiple modules, such as: scraping, aggragating, normalizing, publishing and generating HTML blocks and also within our own pages.

To read more about the plans and objectives you can see in the #Resources, read relevant #Mail threads, or follow those links below:

• WPD/Compatibility_Info
• WPD/Compatibility_Info/Phase_1
• WPD/Compatibility_Info/Phase_2
• WPD/Infrastructure/Components/CompaTables

Past sprints

• Mar. 2014 WPD/Projects/CompaTables/201403-sprint#Work done
• Aug. 2014; Imported all content from MDN, published on github webplatform/compatibility-data
• Sept. 2014
  • Compatibility HTML table rendering extension deployed (see code in webplatform/mediawiki/…/Compatables MediaWiki extension)
  • MediaWiki template we are using within our content is Template:Compatibility
  • Notes on where we installed the template calls in WPD/Projects/CompaTables/Adding_to_our_content

To fix or improve

• See WPD/Projects/CompaTables/201403-sprint#To fix or improve

Related

Published data

• Generated from MDN Compat Importer
• Data is available as webplatform/compatibility-data on GitHub
  • Available as compat/data.json,
  • Also available in “human-friendly” format as compat/data-human.json

Code repositories

• Compatibility data
• MDN Compat Importer, by User:frozenice and User:renoirb
• WebPlatform mediawiki repository, in extensions/CompaTables, by Aaron Schulz, User:shepazu and User:Renoirb
• Data Model for User Agent Testing, by User:Ronaldmansveld and Tobie Langel

See also

• Can My Mobile Browser by Dominique Hazael-Massieux, in April 2013, Re: Automatic Data CanIUse Prototype in file build.py (yet to be documented)
• Query the data.json file through the command line WPD/Projects/CompaTables/Reading_the_data.json_file

Testing the Compatable feature our pages

• WPD/Compatibility_Info/Test
• On the test wiki at test/Tests/Compatibility_table_and_caching, bleeding edge version and integration testing

Resources

• public-webplatform-tests dedicated mailing list
• Test the Web Forward
• W3C browser test suites
• W3C Mobile “web app state” maintained by Dominique Hazael-Massieux

Mail threads

• WebPlatform Browser Support Info
  • WebPlatform Browser Support Info
• Oct. 17 2013, WebPlatform Browser Support Info
• March 2013, Re: Automatic Data CanIUse Prototype
  • April 2013, Re: Automatic Data CanIUse Prototype
  • April 2013, Re: Automatic Data CanIUse Prototype answer by Dominique Hazael-Massieux
• Jan 2014, Converting MDN Compat Data to JSON
  • Jan 2014, Re: Converting MDN Compat Data to JSON
• Jan. 27 2014, MDN Compat data project w/ Jeremie Patronnier
  • Jan. 30 2014
  • Jan. 27 2014, by Janet
• Feb. 07 2014, Compat Table Progress
• May 21 2014, Compat Table Data from MDN
• Sept. 13 2014, Upcoming compatibility table update (i.e. displaying the compatibility data from within the wiki)
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Prefixes, potential resources

• http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#vendor-keyword-history
• http://peter.sh/experiments/vendor-prefixed-css-property-overview/
• https://github.com/ai/autoprefixer
  • https://github.com/ai/autoprefixer/tree/master/lib/hacks
  • https://github.com/ai/autoprefixer/blob/master/updaters/prefixes.coffee
  • https://github.com/ai/autoprefixer/blob/master/updaters/browsers.coffee

Misc. assets

• Collection of web browser logos