Re: WebPlatform Browser Support Info

 

Hi all, 

As Doug mentioned in the earlier email, I'm currently
writing the spec for the datamodel to exchange compatibility data. 

The
first draft can be found on:
http://webplatform.ronaldmansveld.nl/compat_tables_datamodel.html [6].


Currently my main concern is the matching of features, tests and
browsers that are used by the different datasources. I'm strongly
opposed to string/name-based matching, since a simple typo could wreak
havoc on the complete system. Hence the introduction of UUID's for those
parts of the model. However, we need to find a way to make sure all
sources use the same UUID's for the same data. If anyone has an idea on
how to solve this problem, or has a better solution than using UUID's,
hit me up! 

Ronald 

Doug Schepers schreef op 2013-10-17 08:12: 

> Hi,
folks-
> 
> I'd like to start this discussion again, now that we have
more 
> interested people and more resources.
> 
> The idea is to have a
central repository of browser support information, 
> i.e. what features
are supported by which versions of which browser on 
> which OS. We want
to have a shared data model that combines the best 
> features of all
the browser compatibility sites out there, and to 
> provide an API for
anyone to use that information.
> 
> On this list, we have the folks
behind the best sites for this 
> information on the Web:
> * Alexis
Deveria, CanIUse.com
> * Peter-Paul Koch (PPK), QuirksMode.org
> * Niels
Leenheer, HTML5Test.com
> * Max Firtman, MobileHTML5.org
> 
> (BTW, why
are 3 people on that list from the Netherlands??? Max, are you 
>
secretly Dutch, too?)
> 
> We also have permission to use the data from
MDN and W3C's test suites; 
> the former will be good to fill in any
gaps left by the sites above, and 
> the latter is backed by detailed
tests (which will be useful in a later 
> phase, but for now, it's too
fine-grained).
> 
> Ronald Mansveld, who has backend skills, has
volunteered to help us with 
> creating the data model, creating scripts
to scrape or request data from 
> different sources, and normalize the
data.
> 
> Current Goals:
> * create unified data model (probably
JSON)
> * integrate data from different sites into that data store
> *
provide an API for that data
> * create a scalable extension for
WebPlatform.org to show compat data on 
> our pages
> * find the right
level of granularity to display results in different 
> contexts (e.g.,
quicklook, detailed tables of current information, drill 
> down view
into different data sources)
> * help automate QuirksMode's
infrastructure
> 
> Non-goals for WebPlatform.org:
> * testing user's
browsers
> * collecting stats on browser usage for compat (uselessly
skewed on a 
> site aimed at web developers)
> 
> Possible future
goals:
> * report browser statistics (from best source... Akamai?
netstats?)
> * report results for game consoles, set-top boxes, TVs,
etc.
> 
> Random notes:
> * We need to decide the granularity of support
result values, such as:
> http://www.quirksmode.org/key.html [1]
> * My
initial prototype [4] for generating and displaying compatibility 
>
information in pages will not scale without a major restructuring; I 
>
haven't had time to do that; I hope Renoir (WebPlatform's devop) can 
>
help a bit with that, but he is busy
> 
> I'm really excited to see this
moving forward! We'd like to have a rough 
> version ready for
WebPlatform.org's upcoming beta launch.
> 
> [1]
http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:Compatibility_Info [2]
> [2]
http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:Compatibility_Info/Phase_1 [3]
>
[3] http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:Compatibility_Info/Phase_2
[4]
> [4] http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:Compatibility_Info/Test
[5]
> 
> Thanks-
> -Doug

 

Links:
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[1]
http://www.quirksmode.org/key.html
[2]
http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:Compatibility_Info
[3]
http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:Compatibility_Info/Phase_1
[4]
http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:Compatibility_Info/Phase_2
[5]
http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:Compatibility_Info/Test
[6]
http://webplatform.ronaldmansveld.nl/compat_tables_datamodel.html