Re: WebPlatform Browser Support Info

On Oct 18, 2013, at 12:23 AM, Tobie Langel <tobie@w3.org> wrote:

> We've been using spec URLs to link features to test cases so far (e.g. the test for the XmlHttpRequest abort method[1] links to the abort method of the XHR spec[2]) why not continue using that method?
> 
> Likewise, test cases could be identified by their URL.

I already have have a spec URL for each of my tests. So this would would work well for me. But how do we deal with changes to the specs? It is not uncommon for URLs to change too.


> Finally, I'm not sure I understand the benefit of identifying browsers by UUID. (Aren't user agent strings good enough for that?)  For a coarser (and more useful) picture, won't version strings do?

Using the user agent string is not really useful. It is sometimes not specific enough, at other times far too specific and sometimes completely wrong.

Cheers,

Niels
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